Description
Book SynopsisThis concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals' mental vision, employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers' drawings of their mental imagery during reading.
The book engages in critical dialogue with the perceived wisdom in stylistics rooted in Roger Fowler's seminal work on deixis and point of view to test whether or not this theory can fully account for what readers see in their mind''s eye and how they see it. The work draws on findings from a study of English and Dutch across a range of literary texts, in which participants read literary text fragments and were then asked to immediately draw representations of what they had seen envisioned. Building on the work of Fowler and more recent theoretical and empirical language-based studies in the area, Klomberg, Schilhab, and Burke argue that models from embodied cognitive science can help account for anomalies in evid
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Theoretical Framework
Chapter 3 The Study
Chapter 4 Embodied Cognition and Point of View
Chapter 5 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Index
