Cognitive Rhetoric

Cognitive Rhetoric
Title Cognitive Rhetoric PDF eBook
Author Sam Browse
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 249
Release 2018-10-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027263442

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This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory, Text World Theory, Cognitive Grammar, and mind-modelling, amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker’s identity, the arguments they make, and the emotions of the audience in the – often critical – reception of political text and talk, using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach – from political speeches, interviews and newspaper articles, to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music, television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.

Rhetorical Minds

Rhetorical Minds
Title Rhetorical Minds PDF eBook
Author Todd Oakley
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 326
Release 2020-04-09
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1789206707

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Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

Cognitive Models in Language and Thought

Cognitive Models in Language and Thought
Title Cognitive Models in Language and Thought PDF eBook
Author René Dirven
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 448
Release 2012-05-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110892901

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The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition
Title Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition PDF eBook
Author Raphael Lyne
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 277
Release 2011-09-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139501445

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Raphael Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful and ambitious speeches? How do they manage to be so inventive when they are perplexed? Their dense, complex, articulate speeches at intensely dramatic moments are often seen as psychological - they uncover and investigate inwardness, character and motivation - and as rhetorical - they involve heightened language, deploying recognisable techniques. Focusing on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Cymbeline and the Sonnets, Lyne explores both the psychological and rhetorical elements of Shakespeare's language. In the light of cognitive linguistics and cognitive literary theory he shows how Renaissance rhetoric could be considered a kind of cognitive science, an attempt to map out the patterns of thinking. His study reveals how Shakespeare's metaphors and similes work to think, interpret and resolve, and how their struggle to do so results in extraordinary poetry.

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition
Title Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition PDF eBook
Author Theresa Enos
Publisher Routledge
Pages 828
Release 2013-10-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1135816069

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rhetoric in the Flesh

Rhetoric in the Flesh
Title Rhetoric in the Flesh PDF eBook
Author T. Kenny Fountain
Publisher Routledge
Pages 272
Release 2014-07-11
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1317807618

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Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants’ perceptions of the human body. By investigating the role that discourses, displays, and human bodies play in the training and socialization of medical students, T. Kenny Fountain contributes to our theoretical and practical understanding of the social factors that make rhetoric possible and material in technical domains. Thus, the book also explains how these displays, discourses, and practices lead to the trained perspective necessary for expertise. This trained vision is constructed over time through what Fountain terms embodied rhetorical action, an intertwining of body-object-environment that undergirds all scientific, medical, and technical work. This book will be valuable for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in technical and professional communication (technical communication theory and practice, visual or multimodal communication, medical technical communication) and rhetorical studies, including visual rhetoric, rhetoric of science, medical rhetoric, material rhetoric and embodiment, and ethnographic approaches to rhetoric.

Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis

Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis
Title Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hart
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 275
Release 2009-03-26
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1443806625

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In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been elaborated in some detail. Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged, despite the potential theoretical advances such collaboration offers. The contributions to this volume explore the convergence of cognitive and critical trends in the guise of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis. The volume addresses a range of socio-political discourses in various international contexts, including discourses on nation, education, immigration, and war. One single integrated model is not presented, but rather, a number of methodologies are developed and assessed across the chapters. The application of established cognitive linguistic theories, including conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory and frame semantics, are discussed, as well as developing theories, such as metaphor power theory and discourse space theory. The book is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society, including both students and scholars of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis.