2020
DOI: 10.1515/jls-2020-2024
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Literary meaning as character conceptualization: Re-orienting the cognitive stylistic analysis of character discourse and Free Indirect Thought

Abstract: This article establishes the theoretical bases for a more direct and detailed exploration of fictional minds in cognitive stylistics. This discipline usually analyzes narrative discourse in terms of how readers process language and conceptualize narrative meaning, treating literary language more or less explicitly as a window into readers’ mental experiences. However, it is also possible to treat literary language as a window into characters’ minds, which, in spite of their obvious fictionality, could enhance … Show more

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“…Cognitive Grammar also features in articles which take a cognitive approach in 2020, such as two articles by Rundquist. Rundquist (2020), like Stockwell (2020b), examines speech and thought presentation from a Cognitive Grammar perspective with a focus on Free Indirect Thought. In an analysis of The Lost Weekend (1944) by Charles Jackson, Rundquist proposes a focussed mind style analysis which looks to elucidate the mental activity of fictional characters rather than readers.…”
Section: Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cognitive Grammar also features in articles which take a cognitive approach in 2020, such as two articles by Rundquist. Rundquist (2020), like Stockwell (2020b), examines speech and thought presentation from a Cognitive Grammar perspective with a focus on Free Indirect Thought. In an analysis of The Lost Weekend (1944) by Charles Jackson, Rundquist proposes a focussed mind style analysis which looks to elucidate the mental activity of fictional characters rather than readers.…”
Section: Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Literature [15] puts forward the viewpoint that literary characters, as an important element of literary works, should retain the rationality of pointing to the real world and can also reasonably explain for the portrayal of fictional characters in literary works can reach a relative balance in the debate between realists and anti-realists. Literature [16] explores the nature of expression techniques and semantics in literary works under different cultural systems through cognitive grammar and suggests that conceptualization is more precise, based on the author's understanding of shaping fictional characters rather than the reader's subconscious and cognition.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%