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What is Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, Interpretation (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced) about?
How do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become 'lost in a book' or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Interpretation, Cognition provides readers with the tools to begin answering these questions. In doing so, it introduces the theoretical principles and practical framewo
Who reads Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, Interpretation (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gibbons, Alison, author; Whiteley, Sara (Professor), author
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780748682775
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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