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In view of the considerable number of recent publications devoted
to various applications of Cognitive Linguistics, the book focusses
on fields that have not been extensively dealt with within the CL
framework. The book gathers presentations that deal with fields of
application as defined in the introduction to the first volume in
the ACL series (Kristiansen et al 2006). The articles in the first
section ("From loop to cycle") are defining papers written by
eminent scholars whose position within the field of CL has been
firmly established. They touch upon issues of continuing relevance
to the discipline and introduce thematic areas covered in the next
four sections of the volume. Papers in these sections are mainly
written by young scholars, whose research illustrates various ways
to implement the cycle through different forms of
contextualization, either presenting descriptive applications that
lead to theoretical amendments or widening the field of possible
applications, often interdisciplinary, e.g. to theological or
metaphysical discourse. Frequently, section papers provide
illustration for the empirical turn in Cognitive Linguistics,
demonstrating the ways in which application of theory to new data
using new methodologies leads to refinement, development or
modification of the theoretical framework. The book is of relevance
to students of (applied) linguistics, interested or specializing in
language acquisition and pedagogy, intercultural communication,
literary and translation studies, as well as to academics and
students representing cognate disciplines.
In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration,
Micha? Choi?ski confronts the often paradoxical and excessive
elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative
modes and representation strategies in works produced from the
early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed attention to renderings
of the gothic and grotesque, Choi?ski argues that modernist
literature from the U.S. South often deploys the trope of
hyperbole, which escalates contrasts and disrupts the sense of the
normal. By focusing on how writers processed the South via
narratives of hyperbolic excess, Southern Hyperboles explores a
mode of comprehension forged from the tensions of a segregated,
patriarchal society driven by racial and social decorum. Moving
chronologically, Choi?ski traces distinct manifestations of
hyperbolic metalogic in the works of seven authors: Katherine Anne
Porter, William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin,
Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee. The mode of
hyperbole identified by Choi?ski relies on a clash of opposites,
along with the rapid intensification of disharmonious ideas pushed
to extremes, leading to an ultimate break in established decorum.
The shock produced by hyperbole generates a momentary state of
confusion that soon dissipates, allowing recipients to reach a new
understanding of their surrounding world. Melding an innovative use
of rhetorical theory with fine-grained analysis of literary texts,
Southern Hyperboles elucidates contradictory and interlocking
issues related to memory, social trauma, grotesquerie, and troubled
mythologies that permeate the U.S. South.
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