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“28 Palestinians Die”:A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Mystification in Press Coverage of State Violence on the Gaza Border.
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Wolfing down the Twilight series: Metaphors for reading in online reviews
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'The truth is we're watching each other': Voiceover narration as 'split-self' presentation in The Handmaid's Tale TV series
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Cognitive Grammar and reconstrual:Re-experiencing Margaret Atwood's 'The Freeze-Dried Groom'
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This chapter examines the cognitive and experiential processes of re-reading, and their contribution to the conceptualisation of a fictional world. Fictional worlds are experienced dynamically, and often in multiple sittings, separated by varying lengths of time. While the myriad of contextual factors which distinguish sittings makes re-reading a difficult object of study, this aspect of our natural, everyday encounters with texts is worthy of consideration in stylistic discussion. As a first step in this direction, this chapter demonstrates an awareness of multiple readings, and the distinct experiences they represent, as part of a cognitive stylistic account of textual interpretation. Firstly, a theoretical account of re-reading is outlined in terms of Cognitive Grammar and, in particular, its concept of construal. This account is demonstrated through analysis of the short story ‘The Freeze-Dried Groom’ from Margaret Atwood’s 2014 collection Stone Mattress. Applying Cognitive Grammar's multidimensional model of construal, and a further process of reconstrual, we make specific predictions concerning readers’ experiences of this story’s fictional world on a first- and second-reading, looking in particular at changing conceptualisations of tone, atmosphere and narrative perspective, and the linguistic processing responsible. Based on this analytical case study, we propose a need for further investigation of texts which surprise readers, or which feature a twist or reveal, and the ways in which information is attended to across multiple readings.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.32.08har https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/37072/1/Experiencing_Fictional_Worlds_Chapter_9_final_draft_.pdf https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/37072/
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Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘A working party'
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