World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in
worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the
first time. Over the last 40 years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has
become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing
the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has
been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics,
cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary
theory. The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of
frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual
mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these
variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds'
and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an
understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and
pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is
capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting
conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants. The
chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is
an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative
theorists.
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