Text Worlds

Author : Joanna Gavins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748629909

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Text World Theory by Joanna Gavins Pdf

Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing. In this introductory textbook, Joanna Gavins sets out a usable framework for understanding mental representations. Text World Theory is explained using naturally occurring texts and real situations, including literary works, advertising discourse, the language of lonely hearts, horoscopes, route directions, cookery books and song lyrics. The book will therefore enable students, teachers and researchers to make practical use of the text-world framework in a wide range of linguistic and literary contexts.

Author : Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781623560676

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Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry by Marcello Giovanelli Pdf

Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and dream theories to explore reading poems in the light of their emphasis on states of desire, dreaming and nightmares. It accounts for the representation of these states and the ways in which they are likely to be processed, monitored and understood. Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry advances both the current field of cognitive stylistics but also analyses Keats in a way that offers new insights into his poetry. It is of interest to stylisticians and those in literary studies.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674961870

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The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said Pdf

Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.

Author : Jonathan Silverman,Dean Rader
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781554813797

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The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture by Jonathan Silverman,Dean Rader Pdf

Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and argument in the context of pop-culture and visual examples, showing students how to “read” everyday objects and visual texts with basic semiotics. The book shows how texts of all kinds, from a painting to a university building to a pair of sneakers, make complex arguments through their use of signs and symbols, and shows students how to make these arguments in their own essays. This new edition is rich with images, real-world examples, writing and discussion prompts, and examples of academic and student writing. The first part of the book is a rhetoric covering argumentation, research, the writing process, and adapting from high-school to college writing, while the second part explores writing about specific cultural topics. Notes, instruction, and advice about research are woven into the text, with research instruction closely tied to the topic being discussed. New to the updated compact edition are chapters on fashion, sports, and nature and the environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015051610437

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Author : Benedict Neurohr,Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027263032

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Experiencing Fictional Worlds by Benedict Neurohr,Lizzie Stewart-Shaw Pdf

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is fruitfully applied to a wide variety of text types, from poetry to genre-specific prose to children’s story-books. This book investigates how fictional worlds are built and updated, how context affects the conceptualisation of text-worlds, and how emotions are elicited in these processes. The diverse analyses of this volume apply and develop approaches such as Text World Theory, reader-response studies, and pedagogical stylistics, among other broader cognitive and linguistic frameworks. Experiencing Fictional Worlds aligns with other cutting-edge research on language conceptualisation in fields including cognitive linguistics, stylistics, narratology, and literary criticism. This volume will be relevant to anyone with interests in language and literature.

Author : Scott Richard Lyons
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438464459

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The World, the Text, and the Indian by Scott Richard Lyons Pdf

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts. Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, recovery, and teaching of Native American literary and cultural production. For the past few decades the dominant framework has been nationalism, a critical perspective placing emphasis on specific tribal nations and nationalist concepts. While this nationalist intervention has produced important insights and questions regarding Native American literature, culture, and politics it has not always attended to the important fact that Native texts and writers have also always been globalized. The World, the Text, and the Indian breaks from this framework by examining Native American literature not for its tribal-national significance but rather its connections to global, transnational, and cosmopolitan forces. Essays by leading scholars in the field assume that Native American literary and cultural production is global in character; even claims to sovereignty and self-determination are made in global contexts and influenced by global forces. Spanning from the nineteenth century to the present day, these analyses of theories, texts, and methods—from trans-indigenous to cosmopolitan, George Copway to Sherman Alexie, and indigenous feminism to book history—interrogate the dialects of global indigeneity and settler colonialism in literary and visual culture.

Author : Kathryn Sutherland,Marilyn Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317045755

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Text Editing, Print and the Digital World by Kathryn Sutherland,Marilyn Deegan Pdf

Traditional critical editing, defined by the paper and print limitations of the book, is now considered by many to be inadequate for the expression and interpretation of complex works of literature. At the same time, digital developments are permitting us to extend the range of text objects we can reproduce and investigate critically - not just books, but newspapers, draft manuscripts and inscriptions on stone. Some exponents of the benefits of new information technologies argue that in future all editions should be produced in digital or online form. By contrast, others point to the fact that print, after more than five hundred years of development, continues to set the agenda for how we think about text, even in its non-print forms. This important book brings together leading textual critics, scholarly editors, technical specialists and publishers to discuss whether and how existing paradigms for developing and using critical editions are changing to reflect the increased commitment to and assumed significance of digital tools and methodologies.

Author : Dank D Willis
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468960457

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Text World ;) by Dank D Willis Pdf

An absurd tale of smart phones, modern male college life, romance, and the existential nightmare called adulthood.

Author : Paul Werth
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0582229146

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Text Worlds by Paul Werth Pdf

This text analyzes the context in which text and discourse are perceived. It examines how we make sense of complex sentences which we read and hear, and how we, as writers and speakers, put together sentences in order to express certain concepts. It discusses the existence of text worlds, mental constructs which we build up in the form of conceptual scenarios. These enable us to make sense of complex sentences which relate to the concepts contained within them. The use of numerous examples of text and discourse and the diversity of the areas discussed, should make this topic accessible to a wide audience.

Author : Joanna Gavins,Ernestine Lahey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472586544

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World Building by Joanna Gavins,Ernestine Lahey Pdf

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary theory. The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds' and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants. The chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.

Author : Nir Baram
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774177

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World Shadow by Nir Baram Pdf

The #1 bestselling novel in Israel by Nir Baram, a controversial voice of dissent

Author : International Congress of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6EU1

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Proceedings of the International Congress of Education of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July 25-28, 1893 by International Congress of Education Pdf

Author : International Association for Semiotic Studies. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Semiotics
ISBN : UOM:39015004294461

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Semiotics Unfolding: Semiotics in text and literature. Linguistics and semiotics by International Association for Semiotic Studies. Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157488641X

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The World Factbook 2003 by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

By intelligence officials for intelligent people