Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction
Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2016
305 pages
978-90-272-6722-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Introduction: Discourse, cognition and society
- 1. The 'new' social turn in cognitive linguistics
- 2. The chapters in this volume
- References
- I. Socio-cognitive approach to discourse
- From butchers and surgeons to the linguistic method: On language and cognition as supraindividual ph
- 1. This surgeon is a butcher!
- 2. Some possible methodological mistakes in Cognitive Linguistics
- 3. The need to consider interaction and culture in the cognitive study of language
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- Individual differences and in situ identity marking: Colloquial Belgian Dutch in the reality TV show
- 1. Introduction
- 2. "Expeditie Robinson": Introducing the game and the speakers
- 3. Colloquial Belgian Dutch in "Expeditie Robinson": Speaker profiles
- 4. Analyses and results: Comparing the speakers' discourse strategies
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- The persuasive (and manipulative) power of metaphor in 'austerity' discourse: A corpus-based analysi
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical and methodological background: Corpus-based and discourse-based socio-cognitive appro
- 3. The conceptual metaphors of austerity policies
- 4. The persuasive and manipulative functions of the metaphors of austerity: Morality and ideology
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- II. Discourse strategies in multimodal communication
- The construction of meaning in multimodal discourse: A digital story as a case study
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A functional-cognitive approach to the study of meaning construction in digital storytelling
- 3. The story: To Every Child
- 4. Verbal Representation or Input Space 1
- 5. Visual-Spatial Representation or Input Space 2
- 6. Audio Representation or Input Space 3
- 7. Strategies of meaning construction
- 8. The case of multimodal metaphors
- 9. Discussion of results
- 10. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Multimodal metaphor, narrativity and creativity in TV cosmetics ads
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical background
- 3. Data and methodology
- 4. Analysis and discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Multimodal discourses of collective memory
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The data
- 3. Analysis of the landscape and verbal features
- 4. The meaning of the recurrent features of the memorial landscape
- References
- III. Cross-linguistic (English-Spanish) perspectives
- Exploring specific differences: A cross-linguistic study of English and Spanish civil engineering me
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical framework
- 3. Methodology
- 4. Zoomorphic visual and verbal metaphors
- 5. Cross-linguistic analysis and results
- 6. Conclusions
- URL illustrations license and acknowledgment
- References
- The use of metaphor and evaluation as discourse strategies in pre-electoral debates: Just about winn
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metaphors and evaluation in political discourse
- 3. Cross-cultural use of metaphors
- 4. Socio-political background of the Spanish and American debates
- 5. Data collection and methodology
- 6. Metaphor use in the Spanish pre-electoral debate
- 7. A cross-cultural comparison of metaphor
- 8. The interplay between metaphor and evaluation in the Spanish debate
- 9. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix
- A text-world account of temporal world-building strategies in Spanish and English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Text World Theory
- 3. The frog stories
- 4. Departures from the text-world
- 5. Analysis of temporal world-building
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Gesture structuring strategies in English and Spanish autobiographical narratives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cognitive approaches to textual and gesture segmentation of oral narratives
- 3. Data and metohodology
- 4. Analysis of the narratives
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Index
