tailieunhanh - The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 123

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 123. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 1190 MARGARET H. FREEMAN Rohrer 2005 defines mimetic blending as a blend that self-referentially embeds itself into subsequent blends and shows how this iterative chaining serves as a literary device in Mario Vargas Llosa s novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and its film version Tune in Tomorrow to provide metafictional commentary on issues such as the ability of art to create fictive emotion. The use of grammatical voice in a dynamic discourse situation in a Tagalog video melodrama reveals the underlying scenarios that affect whether or not the agency of the participants will be profiled Palmer 1998 . Palmer s study suggests that cognitive analysis may reveal how emotional discourse in literature is governed by the social and power relationships that give rise to dramatic conflict and resolution. . Religious Texts Tsur s 2003 latest contribution to his theory of Cognitive Poetics studies how religious ideas are turned into verbal imitations of religious experience by poetic structure 7 . Ranging widely over metaphysical baroque and romantic poetry Tsur explores all the many different aspects of human cognitive processes in a comprehensive and detailed manner to show how poets attempt to represent the ineffable. One of these ways is of course through metaphor and the articles in Boeve and Feyaerts s 1999 edition of Metaphor and God-talk provide a cognitive linguistic perspective on religious discourse. Other book-length studies include discussion of an extended metaphor describing the deity in the context of Hebrew cultural beliefs and practices Sienstra 1993 and a study of the Bible through metaphor and translation Feyaerts 2003 . From another perspective M. Ramey 1997 reviews the religious preconceptions of biblical exegesists that govern their interpretations of St. Paul s views on the body and the resurrection and suggests that a blending analysis of particular Pauline passages in the New Testament comes closer to Paul s eschatological and ethical .