Style articles from September 2002

Style archives from September 2002

Apostrophe in life and in Romantic art: everyday discourse, overhearing, and poetic address.
September 22, 2002... If a zone of convergence is emerging between literary studies and the cognitive sciences, then a fundamentally new understanding of figurative language marks its epicenter. (1) The study of rhetorical figures, especially metaphor, became a key...

Identifying Metaphor in Language: a cognitive approach.
September 22, 2002... 1. The Cognitive Paradigm and Linguistic Metaphor identification One paradoxical effect of the cognitive turn in metaphor studies has been the neglect of the linguistic analysis of metaphorical language. Many metaphor scholars have...

Mapping the mind and the body: on W.H. Auden's personifications.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... "The will of one by being two At every moment is denied." (W. H. Auden, "The Sea and The Mirror," Collected 413) 1. Introduction: Mind, Body, and Personification Despite our traditional view of the body and mind as divided, one...

Metaphor comprehension as problem solving: an online study of the reading process. (1).
September 22, 2002... 1. Interaction Theory and Problem Solving A special issue on "Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor" very fittingly calls forth a collaboration between a literary critic and a cognitive psychologist. Taking advantage of the unique skills...

"Life without Parole": metaphor and discursive commitment. (1).
September 22, 2002... Polonius. My Lord, the Queen would speak with you, and presently. Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius. By the' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed. Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius. It...

Cognitive mapping in literary analysis.
September 22, 2002... Literary analysis takes many forms, depending on the critical approach adopted. Critical theories vary in the ways they accommodate the three components of literature--the writer, the reader, and the text. At one extreme are those theories that...

A minimal, lexicalist/constituent transfer account of metaphor.
September 22, 2002... Cognitive Theories of Metaphor Within literary study, the most prominent cognitive approach to metaphor is that of George Lakoff and Mark Turner. In the Lafoff/Turner account, metaphor is pervasive in cognition. It organizes and orients...

Assembling spaces: the conceptual structure of Allegory.
September 22, 2002... 1. Allegory, Rhetoric and Theory Allegory is a Mount Everest for critics. It drives some to renounce theory and descend to particulars, while inspiring others to new heights. Northrop Frye's work on allegory "obstinately adhered to a much...

Bodily action and metaphorical meaning.
September 22, 2002... The human body serves as a frequent source of our metaphorical thought and language. This is not surprising given that metaphor provides the resource to understand ideas, events, and objects in terms of what is most familiar and...

Love and Anger: the grammatical structure of conceptual metaphors.
September 22, 2002... 1. Introduction This article integrates grammatical analysis into the study of conceptal metaphors. Although the study accepts lexically based work in metaphors such as Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, Johnson's The Body in the...

Narrative: a user's manual.(Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling by Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps. Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. xii + 352 pp. $39.95 cloth. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, firmly anchored in data drawn...

Books received.
September 22, 2002... Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge introduction to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. $55.00 cloth; $20.00 paper. Culpeper, Jonathan. Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts. Harlow, UK: Pearson (Longman), 2001....