Can I read Stylistics and Social Cognition (Pala Papers: Poetics and Linguistics Assiciation, 4) on EtoBox?

Stylistics and Social Cognition (Pala Papers: Poetics and Linguistics Assiciation, 4) by Lesley Jeffries; Dan McIntyre; Derek Bousfield; Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stylistics and Social Cognition (Pala Papers: Poetics and Linguistics Assiciation, 4) about?

This volume of articles comprises papers from the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005. The theme of the conference was ‘Stylistics and Social Cognition', and as usual at a PALA conference, this theme was interpreted very widely by the participants, as the reader of this book will no doubt conclude.At the heart of this volume, there is something of a reaction against the cognitive developments in stylistics, which might be seen as being in danger of privileging the individual interpretation of literature over something more social. The concern is to consider whether there is a more collective approach that could be taken to the meaning of text, and whether recent insights from cognitive stylistics could work with this idea of collectivity to define something we might call ‘commonality'of meaning in texts.Stylistics and Social Cognition will be of interest to those working in stylistics and other text-analytic fields such as critical discourse analysis and those concerned with notions of interpretation, collective meaning and human communication.

Author

Lesley Jeffries; Dan McIntyre; Derek Bousfield; Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9789042023123

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Linguistics