Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar: Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction

Nuttall, Louise & Dan McIntyre

ISBN 10: 1350010537 / ISBN 13: 9781350010536

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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A bright, clean copy. ; Advances In Stylistics; 9.3 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 224 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar: Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350010537
• ISBN 13: 9781350010536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism/Literary History/Lit.Theory

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Synopsis

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances our understanding of mind style: the experience of other minds, or worldviews, through language in literature. This book is the first to set out a detailed, unified framework for the analysis of mind style using the account of language and cognition set out in cognitive grammar.

Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, Louise Nuttall aims to explain how character and narrator minds are created linguistically, with a focus on the strange minds encountered in the genre of speculative fiction. Previous analyses of mind style are reconsidered using cognitive grammar, alongside original analyses of four novels by Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Richard Matheson and J.G. Ballard. Responses to the texts in online forums and literary critical studies ground the analyses in the experiences of readers, and support an investigation of this effect as an embodied experience cued by the language of a text. Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances both stylistics and cognitive linguistics, whilst offering new insights for research in speculative fiction.

About the Authors

Louise Nuttall is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research explores stylistic applications of Cognitive Grammar and reader experiences of fictional minds. She is co-editor of Cognitive Grammar in Literature (with Chloe Harrison, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan, John Benjamins, 2014). Her first published article in Language and Literature won the 2015 PALA Prize.

Daniel McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Brian Walker is a Visiting Researcher at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His research interests are in stylistics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics, especially applied to literary and political discourses. He has co-authored books on discourse analysis (Canning and Walker 2024), stylistics (Lugea and Walker 2023), corpus stylistics (McIntyre and Walker 2019) and socio-political keywords (Jeffries and Walker 2017). His other published research focuses on using corpus linguistic approaches to analyse poetry (McIntyre and Walker 2022), discourses of austerity (Jeffries and Walker 2019, 2020), and Early Modern English news pamphlets (Walker and McIntyre 2015).