Stylistics and Social Cognition (Pala Papers: Poetics and Linguistics Assiciation, 4) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042023120 ISBN 13: 9789042023123

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

This volume of articles comprises papers from the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005. The theme of the conference was 'Stylistics and Social Cognition', and as usual at a PALA conference, this theme was interpreted very widely by the participants, as the reader of this book will no doubt conclude. At the heart of this volume, there is something of a reaction against the cognitive developments in stylistics, which might be seen as being in danger of privileging the individual interpretation of literature over something more social. The concern is to consider whether there is a more collective approach that could be taken to the meaning of text, and whether recent insights from cognitive stylistics could work with this idea of collectivity to define something we might call 'commonality' of meaning in texts. Stylistics and Social Cognition will be of interest to those working in stylistics and other text-analytic fields such as critical discourse analysis and those concerned with notions of interpretation, collective meaning and human communication.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9042023120
• ISBN 13: 9789042023123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Jeffries Lesley, McIntyre Dan, Bousfield Derek