{"product_id":"9781472586537","title":"World Building Discourse in the Mind","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAdvances in Stylistics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eWorld Building\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDiscourse in the Mind\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJoanna Gavins | Dan McIntyre | Ernestine Lahey | Brian Walker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines \/ Linguistics \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Building\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanna Gavins \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in Literary Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, UK.  She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading the Absurd\u003c\/i\u003e (EUP, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eText World Theory: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (EUP, 2007).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnestine Lahey \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Stylistics at University College Roosevelt. She has published widely on subjects relating to (cognitive) stylistics, Text World Theory and Canadian literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 June 2016\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781472586537\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e312\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21.6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55334570885260,"sku":"9781472586537","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_8f43d110-3bad-4089-ab91-42d3a6382fad.jpg?v=1788028533","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781472586537","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}