Cognitive poetics, the Glossary
Cognitive poetics is a school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cognitive psychology, to the interpretation of literary texts.[1]
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30 relations: Cognition, Cognitive linguistics, Cognitive philology, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive rhetoric, Cognitive science, Conceptual metaphor, Critical theory, Deixis, Elena Semino, Evolutionary psychology, Figure of speech, Genre, George Lakoff, List of narrative techniques, Literary theory, Literature, Mark Turner (cognitive scientist), Metaphor, Neuropsychology, Perception, Poetics, Poetry, Reader-response criticism, Reuven Tsur, Ronald Langacker, Schema (psychology), Stylistics, Text world theory, Writing.
- Cognitive linguistics
- Poetics
Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". Cognitive poetics and Cognition are cognitive psychology.
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Cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics.
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Cognitive philology
Cognitive philology is the science that studies written and oral texts as the product of human mental processes. Cognitive poetics and Cognitive philology are cognitive psychology.
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Cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
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Cognitive rhetoric
Cognitive rhetoric refers to an approach to rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy as well as a method for language and literary studies drawing from, or contributing to, cognitive science. Cognitive poetics and cognitive rhetoric are cognitive linguistics.
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Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
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In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. Cognitive poetics and conceptual metaphor are cognitive linguistics.
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Critical theory
A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures.
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Deixis
In linguistics, deixis is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance.
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Elena Semino
Elena Semino (born 9 September 1964) is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory.
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Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective.
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Figure of speech
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.
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Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
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George Lakoff
George Philip Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena.
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List of narrative techniques
A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses—in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging.
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Literary theory
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.
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Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
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Mark Turner (cognitive scientist)
Mark Turner (born 1954) is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author.
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
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Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
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Perception
Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.
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Poetics
Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly.
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
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Reader-response criticism
Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Cognitive poetics and reader-response criticism are literary criticism.
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Reuven Tsur
Reuven Tsur (Hebrew: ראובן צור) (December 15, 1932 – September 6, 2021) was a professor emeritus of Hebrew literature and literary theory at Tel Aviv University.
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Ronald Langacker
Ronald Wayne Langacker (born December 27, 1942) is an American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
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Schema (psychology)
In psychology and cognitive science, a schema (schemata or schemas) describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Cognitive poetics and schema (psychology) are cognitive psychology.
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Stylistics
Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals and/or in different situations or settings.
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Text world theory
Text world theory is a cognitive model of language processing which aims to explain how people construct meaning from language. Cognitive poetics and Text world theory are cognitive linguistics.
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Writing
Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language.
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See also
Cognitive linguistics
- Bi-directional hypothesis of language and action
- Coercion (linguistics)
- Cognitive and linguistic theories of composition
- Cognitive grammar
- Cognitive linguistics
- Cognitive poetics
- Cognitive rhetoric
- Cognitive semantics
- Cognitive semiotics
- Conceptual blending
- Conceptual metaphor
- Concision
- Construction grammar
- Formal semantics (natural language)
- Frame semantics (linguistics)
- Growth point
- Hypocognition
- Iconicity
- Idealized cognitive model
- Image schema
- Internet metaphors
- Linguistic competence
- Linguistic frame of reference
- Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate
- Mentalist postulate
- Motor theory of speech perception
- Numerical cognition
- Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association
- Prototype theory
- Psychology of reasoning
- Relational Network Theory
- Text world theory
- Word Grammar
Poetics
- Afflatus
- Anacoluthon
- Anagnorisis
- Areopagus (poetry)
- Artistic inspiration
- Bathos
- Catharsis
- Cognitive poetics
- Diction
- Dionysian imitatio
- Ethnopoetics
- Ethos
- Genius (literature)
- Geoffrey of Vinsauf
- Hamartia
- Hunting the Snark
- Ideogrammic method
- Imitation (art)
- Kavyadarsha
- Latin poetry
- Lexis (Aristotle)
- Mimesis
- Mode (literature)
- Mythos (Aristotle)
- New Historicism
- Ontopoetics
- Oral poetry
- Peripeteia
- Poetic devices
- Poetic diction
- Poetic forms
- Poetics
- Poetry analysis
- Theopoetics