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Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts

Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Focus on Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1032125896
ISBN13: 9781032125893
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 16 2022
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals' mental vision, employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers' drawings of their mental imagery during reading.

The book engages in critical dialogue with the perceived wisdom in stylistics rooted in Roger Fowler's seminal work on deixis and point of view to test whether or not this theory can fully account for what readers see in their mind's eye and how they see it. The work draws on findings from a study of English and Dutch across a range of literary texts, in which participants read literary text fragments and were then asked to immediately draw representations of what they had seen envisioned. Building on the work of Fowler and more recent theoretical and empirical language-based studies in the area, Klomberg, Schilhab, and Burke argue that models from embodied cognitive science can help account for anomalies in evidence from readers' drawings, indicating new ways forward for interdisciplinary understandings of individual meaning construction in literary textual interfaces.

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