Discourse and literature : the interplay of form and mind /
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| Author / Creator: | Cook, Guy |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | x, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford applied linguistics |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1612873 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1.
- 1. A basis for analysis: schema theory, its general principles, history andterminology
- Introduction
- Schema theory: general principles
- Examples demonstrating schemata in discourse processing
- Evidence for schemata
- World schemata and text schemata
- The origins of schema theory
- Bartlett's Remembering
- The eclipse of schema theory
- The revival of schema theory
- The terminology of schema theory
- Notes
- 2. A first bearing: discourse analysis and its limitations
- Introduction'Text', 'context', and 'discourse'Acceptability above the sentence
- Cohesion
- The omission fallacy
- Meaning as encoding/decoding versus meaning as construction
- Pragmatic approaches and their capacity to characterize 'literariness'
- Macro-functions
- Discourse structure
- Discourse as process (and literature as conversation)
- Discourse as dialogue
- The 'post-scientific' approach
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. A second bearing: AI text theory and its limitations
- Introduction
- The computational and brain paradigms of language
- The constructivist principle
- One system of conceptual construction: conceptual dependency theory (CD)
- Problems for conceptual constructions
- A complex AI schema theory
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4. Testing the AI approach. Two analyses: a 'literary' and a 'non-literary' text
- Introduction
- Text One: the opening of Crime and Punishment (translation)
- Text Two: 'Every cloud has a Silver Lining' (advertisement)
- Conclusions from analyses
- Notes
- 5. A third bearing: literary theories from formalism to stylistics
- Introduction
- The rise of 'modern literary theory'
- Theories of pattern and deviation
- The formalist theory of defamiliarization
- Patterns in discourse: structures and structuralism
- Roman Jakobson's poetics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6. Incorporating the reader: two analyses combining stylistics and schema theory
- Introduction
- Text Three: 'Elizabeth Taylor's Passion' (advertisement)
- Text Four: 'First World War Poets' (poem)
- Incorporating the reader
- Notes
- Part 2.
- 7. A theory of discourse deviation: schema refreshment and cognitive change
- Introduction: the argument so far
- The need for schema change
- Prelude to the theory: earlier accounts of schema change
- A theory of literary discourse: schema refreshment and cognitive change
- A theory of literary discourse: discourse deviation
- Defamiliarization revisited
- Notes
- 8. Application of the theory: discourse deviation in three literary texts
- Introduction
- Text Five: 'The Tyger'
- Text Six: The Turn of the Screw
- Text Seven: 'The Windhover'
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 9. What the theory means for literature teaching
- Appendix A. Grammatical notation: symbols and abbreviations
- Appendix B. Conceptual dependency (CD) and semantics
- Bibliography
- Index