Schema theory in stylistics

Emmott, Catherine; Alexander, Marc; Marszalek, Agnes

doi:10.4324/9781315795331.ch16

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“…This is a completely cognitive process that can be examined under many headings. Emmott et al (2014) define Schema theory as follows:…”

Section: 2schema Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Representation of Animals in Arabic and English Children’s Short Stories: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

Muhammad

2022

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This paper investigates the moral representation of animals in two English and Arabic short stories from a cognitive stylistic (CS) perspective. Animal stories appear in a variety of forms, but all include one or more type of animals as the focus of the story. Authors of children literature use animal characters to convey moral ideas through analogy, ideas that would have greater impact than if child characters were presented. CS is the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. It deals with the cognitive processes which influence text interpretation during the act of reading. It takes into account both the formal features of language and the nonlinguistic context of the readers in constructing meaning out of a text. The analysis in this paper is conducted through schema theory. The filling-in of textual gaps with one’s own cognitive knowledge is the basic premise behind schema theory. The hallmark of schema theory is that interpreting any kind of fiction relies on the reader’s background knowledge. When reading a text, readers interpret what is presented by supplying their own knowledge of the world. The analysis tackles the examination of both the thematic and technical tools that are employed by the writers of animal short stories to instill morals in the minds and cognitions of the child readers. The two short stories analyzed are; "Finding Nemo" by Andrew Stanton, and an Arabic one entitled "??????? ????? ?????" " kat?k?t? ????? mrt?n "(Katakito errs twice) by Nabil Farouk. The analysis yields the conclusion that the schema of any person, whether the writer or the child reader, is culturally and naturally affected.

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“…This is a completely cognitive process that can be examined under many headings. Emmott et al (2014) define Schema theory as follows:…”

Section: 2schema Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Representation of Animals in Arabic and English Children’s Short Stories: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

Muhammad

2022

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“…2, Cook (1994) identifies three effects -namely schema reinforcing, preserving and disrupting or refreshing -and views the literariness of literary works as basically a matter of refreshing schemata in readers' minds. By the same token, Emmott et al (2014) further explains that schema is important in cognitive analyses of literature because "'special effects' can be created by an author through the subversion, exploitation, alteration, or violation of a reader's schema knowledge" (p. 268). Cook, 1994, p. 191)…”

Section: Schema Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Performativity and Horror Fiction: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

El-Sayed

2021

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This paper argues that horror fiction creates its effect through exploiting the workings of language in the minds of readers. As a genre that crosses many art forms, it might be tempting to analyze the multimodal vehicles of horror; the visual effects, the jump scares and the ominous music. However, studying the ability of language, on its own and without any audio-visual effects, to instill horror in its readers becomes even more enticing. The idea that words have the power to disrupt the reality of its readers is deeply rooted in the view of language as performative. The paper further argues that horror writers have manipulate linguistic structures in a peculiar way to serve the purpose of frightening their readers. To this end, an eclectic text-based cognitive stylistic approach is employed to analyze an excerpt from William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971), demonstrating how the process of horror creation is both a textual and a cognitive one, whereby the mental image of reality in the minds of readers is manipulated and distorted by means of linguistic structures, hence horrifying them. Results reveal that for horror to be achieved, layers of blending take place in readers minds in order to arrive to horrific meanings textually described. Additionally, manipulation of syntactic complexity and the morphology of verbs intensifies the horrific effect.

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“…Socio-cultural schemas depend on factors like gender, age, race, class and other different areas in socio-cultural studies (Emmott, Alexander, & Marszalek, 2014, p. 271). Emmott, Alexander, and Marszalek (2014) suggest that reading is not a matter of processing facts but it is a matter of feeling a real sense of the world of the text so we need a sensory schema to explain our awareness of what is involved by basic perception such as vision, hearing, smell, touch, and taste (Emmott, Alexander, & Marszalek, 2014, pp. 272-273).…”

Section: Cognitive Poetics and Mind Stylementioning

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A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of As Good as It Gets

Jaafar¹

2019

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This study primarily attempts at examining the mind style of the leading character in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets performed by Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall, a novelist who is characterized as a misanthrope, and suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The main aim of this paper is to examine the mind-modeling of the character's mind for his unique odd mind style. This can be achieved by applying both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The adopted methodology is based basically on McIntyre and Archer (2010) and McIntyre (2015); it shares some of the perspectives that require using Wmatrix (Rayson, 2008) to perform the quantitative analysis in order to validate the qualitative data. However, this study, does not aim to measure consistency. This paper aims at: first, verifying the usefulness of one of the corpus tools in understanding the deviant mind of the character. Second, analyzing key semantic domains of the speech of the main character as well as the keywords used by him. In addition to that, the researcher tries to benefit from cognitive linguistics schema theory in understanding the odd mind style of the character.

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Schema theory in stylistics

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Moral Representation of Animals in Arabic and English Children’s Short Stories: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

Moral Representation of Animals in Arabic and English Children’s Short Stories: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

Language Performativity and Horror Fiction: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of As Good as It Gets

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