Catherine Emmott
List of John Benjamins publications in which Catherine Emmott is involved.
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ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775
2025 Chapter 2. Reconstructing Kath: Memory, bereaved mind styles and plot manipulation in Penelope Lively’s The Photograph Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021), Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins (eds.), pp. 21–44 | Chapter
Penelope Lively’s The Photograph is a story which revolves around a dead woman, Kath, and the memories of her by those closest to her. Readers of the novel have to form a representation of her from information presented in the thoughts of the bereaved characters, then reconstruct this… read more
2017 Chapter 4. Immersed in imagined landscapes: Contextual frames and metalepsis in representing virtual travel in Elspeth Davie’s “A map of the world” The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, Douthwaite, John, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru (eds.), pp. 45–60 | Chapter
Elspeth Davie’s short story “A map of the world” provides examples of a character apparently crossing narrative borders, termed “metalepsis” (Genette 1980, 1988). The character is unable to travel in actuality due to caring for her bed-ridden mother, but her imagination allows for virtual travel,… read more
2015 Chapter 12. Interpreting antecedentless pronouns in narrative texts: Knowledge types, world building and inference-making The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 241–258 | Article
Antecedentless pronouns provide a key to understanding the cognitive processing of texts, since, in the absence of antecedents, interpretation of these pronouns relies on inference-making based on general knowledge and/or text-specific knowledge (e.g. Yule 1982; Sanford et al. 1983; Gerrig 1986;… read more
2002 “Split selves” in fiction and in medical “life stories”: Cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis, Semino, Elena and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 153–181 | Chapter
2002 5. Responding to style: Cohesion, foregrounding and thematic interpretation Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies, Louwerse, Max M. and Willie van Peer (eds.), pp. 91–117 | Chapter
1999 Embodied in a Constructed World: Narrative processing, knowledge representation, and indirect anaphora Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997, Van Hoek, Karen, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman (eds.), pp. 5–28 | Article