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Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing. In this introductory textbook, Joanna Gavins sets out a usable framework for understan
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the
Experiencing Fictional Worlds
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Authors: Benedict Neurohr
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume p
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse
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Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cogniti
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguisti