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Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction
Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An inter- and multidisciplinary approach is proposed that combines theories and methodologies coming from Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Multimodal Metaphor Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Narratology, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Appraisal Theory, together with the most recent developments of Socio-Cognitive Linguistics, for the analysis of real communicative events, which range from TV reality shows, commercials, digital stories or political debates, to technical texts, architectural memorials, newspapers and autobiographical narratives. Still, several key notions are recurrent in all contributions -embodiment, multimodality, conceptual integration, metaphor, and creativity- as the fundamental constituents of discourse processing. It is only through this wide-ranging epistemological and empirical approach that the complexity of discourse strategies in real contexts, i.e. human communication, can be fully comprehended, and that discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics can be brought closer together.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 March 2016
Published online on 14 March 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Discourse, cognition and societyManuela Romano and Maria Dolores Porto | pp. 1–17
- Part I. Socio-cognitive approach to discourse
- From butchers and surgeons to the linguistic method: On language and cognition as supraindividual phenomenaEnrique Bernárdez | pp. 21–38
- Individual differences and in situ identity marking: Colloquial Belgian Dutch in the reality TV show "Expeditie Robinson”Eline Zenner, Gitte Kristiansen and Dirk Geeraerts | pp. 39–77
- The persuasive (and manipulative) power of metaphor in ‘austerity’ discourse: A corpus-based analysis of embodied and moral metaphors of austerity in the Portuguese pressAugusto Soares da Silva | pp. 79–108
- Part II. Discourse strategies in multimodal communication
- The construction of meaning in multimodal discourse: A digital story as a case studySilvia Molina Plaza and Isabel Alonso Belmonte | pp. 111–135
- Multimodal metaphor, narrativity and creativity in TV cosmetics adsLaura Hidalgo-Downing, Maria-Ángeles Martínez and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic | pp. 137–158
- Multimodal discourses of collective memoryMalgorzata Fabiszak | pp. 159–183
- Part III. Cross-linguistic (English – Spanish) perspectives
- Exploring specific differences: A cross-linguistic study of English and Spanish civil engineering metaphorsAna Maria Roldan Riejos | pp. 187–213
- The use of metaphor and evaluation as discourse strategies in pre-electoral debates: Just about winning votesMercedes Díez Prados | pp. 215–244
- A text-world account of temporal world-building strategies in Spanish and EnglishJane Lugea | pp. 245–272
- Gesture structuring strategies in English and Spanish autobiographical narrativesAna-Laura Rodríguez-Redondo | pp. 273–295
- Index | pp. 297–299
“Human beings—seamlessly mental, social, and cultural—deploy various strategies to construct meaning. This interesting book starts there, studies authentic participants actually communicating, and offers valuable applications of cognitive science within the fields of semiotics and discourse studies.”
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
“This book provides unprecedented coverage of a range of topics at the interface between discourse studies and cognitive linguistics. A wide range of research methods are covered in the various chapters, and there is some ground-breaking research in here. A must-read for researchers and students.”
Jeanette Littlemore, University of Birmingham
“This book successfully explores a dynamic range of discourse strategies, demonstrating how real socio-cultural interactions affect discourse. Anyone interested in how discourse shapes society and cognition would find the contents in this volume advantageous to their learning.”
Judith Bridges, University of South Florida, on Linguist List 28.2463 (2 June 2017)
“The findings presented in this volume enable us to realize the cross-disciplinary interface of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis and the relationships among discourse structures, cognitive structures and society. They can also help us understand the importance of shared knowledge and situated cognition. Therefore, this volume is a good reference for readers who are interested in discourse analysis, multimodality, evaluation and the socio-cognitive approach to language.”
Xinzhang Yang, Xiamen University, in Discourse Studies Vol. 19.4 (2017)
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