MIND STYLE AND COGNITIVE GRAMMAR language and worldview in speculative fiction;language and worldview in speculative fiction

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Permissions 1. Introduction 1.1 The topic of this book 1.2 A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style 1.3 'Real' readers 1.4 Speculative fiction 1.5 The structure of this book 2. Mind style 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Mind style and systemic-functional grammar 2.3 Mind style and point of view 2.4 Mind style and deviation 2.5 Cognitive approaches to fictional minds 2.6 Experiences of mind style 2.7 Conclusion 3. Cognitive grammar 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Cognitive linguistics 3.3 Linguistic units 3.4 Construal 3.5 Simulation 3.6 Discourse 3.7 Cognitive grammar and systemic-functional grammar 3.8 Text world theory and cognitive grammar 3.9 Conclusion 4. Syntax and thought 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Stream of consciousness 4.3 Structuring reality in cognitive grammar 4.4 Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale 4.5 World construal in The Handmaid's Tale 4.6 Attributing a mind style 4.7 Positioning the reader 4.8 Conclusion 5. Lexis and knowledge 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Under/over-lexicalization 5.3 Character and reader knowledge in cognitive grammar 5.4 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 5.5 Puzzle solving in Never Let Me Go 5.6 Burying and mind style 5.7 Specificity and humanness 5.8 Conclusion 6. Transitivity and worldview 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Transitivity effects 6.3 Action and mind attribution in cognitive grammar 6.4 Richard Matheson's I Am Legend 6.5 Thought representation in I Am Legend 6.6 Action chains and agency 6.7 Group participants and group minds 6.8 Perspective and mind style 6.9 Conclusion 7. Metaphor and mind 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Conventional and idiosyncratic metaphors 7.3 Metaphor and simulation in cognitive grammar 7.4 J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World 7.5 Figurative language in The Drowned World 7.6 Novel similes and construal 7.7 Resisting a mind style 7.8 Conclusion 8. Conclusion 8.1 A cognitive grammar of mind style 8.2 What stylistics can do for cognitive grammar 8.3 Strange minds in strange worlds Notes References Index "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."-- Publisher description