World Building
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World Building

Discourse in the Mind

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

World Building

Discourse in the Mind

About this book

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary theory. The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds' and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants.
The chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.

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Yes, you can access World Building by Joanna Gavins,Ernestine Lahey in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. 1. World Building in Discourse
  9. 2. ‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction
  10. 3. Author-Character Ethos in Dan Brown’s Langdon-Series Novels
  11. 4. Building More-Than-Human Worlds: Umwelt Modelling in Animal Narratives
  12. 5. Building Hollywood in Paddington: Text World Theory, Immersive Theatre, and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man
  13. 6. Speaker Enactors in Oral Narrative
  14. 7. Text World Theory as Cognitive Grammatics : A Pedagogical Application in the Secondary Classroom
  15. 8. Worlds from Words: Theories of World-building as Creative Writing Toolbox
  16. 9. The Texture of Authorial Intention
  17. 10. Building Resonant Worlds: Experiencing the Text-Worlds of The Unconsoled
  18. 11. ‘This is not the end of the world’: Situating Metaphor in the Text-Worlds of the 2008 British Financial Crisis
  19. 12. The Humorous Worlds of Film Comedy
  20. 13. Spanglish Dialogue in You and Me : An Absurd World and Senile Mind Style
  21. 14. Autofocus and Remote Text-World Building in the Earliest English Narrative Poetry
  22. 15. ‘Into the Futures of their Makers’: A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Reversals, Accelerations and Shifts in Time in the Poems of Eavan Boland
  23. 16. Stylistic Interanimation and Apophatic Poetics in Jacob Polley’s ‘Hide and Seek’
  24. Index