Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

Applies cognitive linguistic approaches to text analysis in the traditions of poetics and critical discourse analysis Brings together scholars working across stylistics and critical discourse analysis including Peter Stockwell, Joanna Gavins and Elena Semino Uses experimental and ethnographic methods for textual research Explores phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis as well as epiphenomenal qualities such as a text’s ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasivenessTexts analys