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Article: A new paradigm for literary studies, or: the teething troubles of cognitive poetics.(Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, Cognitive Poetics in Practice, Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis)(Book Review)
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Peter Stockwell. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 193 pp. $80.00 cloth; $25.95 paper.
Joanna Gavins and Gerard Steen, eds. Cognitive Poetics in Practice. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 188 pp. $90.00 cloth; $28.95 paper.
Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper, eds. Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002. xvi + 333 pp. $95.00 cloth; $32.95 paper.
The basic premise in cognitive linguistics that there is no direct mapping between words and the world, that each situation can be "construed" in different ways depending on such experiential aspects as perspective, ...