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Ecostylistics: Texts, Methodologies and Approaches, special issue of the Journal of World Languages 8.3
No full textThis Special Issue of the Journal of World Languages has the specific aim and objective to further the state of research in the cutting-edge field of ecostylistics. More precisely, this Special Issue features research contributions by scholars whose work falls within the aims and scope of stylistics, and who apply the theoretical framework of this discipline and its diverse methodologies to the examination of several literary and non-literary texts with ecological and environmental concerns. The Special Issue is introduced by an Editorial by the Guest Editor, and features seven research articles by Andrew Goatly, Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, Daniela Francesca Virdis, Esterino Adami, Karolien Vermeulen, Salvador Alarcón-Hermosilla, and Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
“Presentazione” a Quaderni del CIRM Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore: Numero 1
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Chapter 10. “She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”
No full textBook review of "Language in place: stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment" [Reseña de libro]
No full textReseña del libro: Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru, and Ernestine Lahey, eds. Language in place: stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment (Linguistic approaches to literature, LAL ; 37). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2021. 258 pp
Metaphor as a Strategy of Resistance in D.H. Lawrence
No full textMetaphor is of central importance to the major English modernist writer
D.H. Lawrence. Thinking took place in and through developing metaphors
in order to avoid what he saw as the traps of Western rationality, participating in a wider intellectual turn towards the structures of language as a
locus of meaning at a time – the modernist period – when older truths were
giving way and new possibilities were urgently sought.
Fiona Becket (1997, p. 2) has placed Lawrence’s interest in metaphor
rather than logic and reason under the heading of poetic thinking
Introduction
No full textIn treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader determined by the author’s worldview. Contents and effects, (namely mental and emotional states, behaviours), are thus inseparable. Identifying those effects and how they are produced is an eminently cognitive operation. The chapters analyse a variety of linguistic devices and cognitive mechanisms employed in producing the text and accounting for the effects achieved. Though the majority of the chapters have a cognitive basis, a wide range of methodologies are employed, including ecostylistics, offering cutting-edge theoretical approaches teamed up with close reading. A further crucial feature of this collection is the selection of non-canonical texts, ranging from lesser-known texts in English to significant works in languages other than English, all of which are characterised by important social themes, thus emphasising the importance of critical appreciation as a means of self-empowerment
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