Text World Theory An Introduction
by Gavins, JoannaEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-07
Publisher(s): Edinburgh University Press
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Summary
Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing. In this introductory textbook, Joanna Gavins sets out a usable framework for understanding mental representations. Text World Theory is explained using naturally occurring texts and real situations, including literary works, advertising discourse, the language of lonely hearts, horoscopes, route directions, cookery books and song lyrics. The book will therefore enable students, teachers and researchers to make practical use of the text-world framework in a wide range of linguistic and literary contexts.Features* An accessible and enabling course book which includes suggestions for exploration and further reading.* Draws on linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, poetics and stylistics, and will be attractive to students and researchers working in all of these disciplines.* Each chapter provides a reader-friendly introduction to an aspect of Text World Theory and includes at least two practical applications of these ideas to real discourse examples.
Author Biography
Joanna Gavins is a lecturer in English language and literature at the University of Sheffield, UK
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Conceptualising Language | p. 1 |
| The world in the mind | p. 3 |
| Language in the mind | p. 4 |
| Some history | p. 6 |
| Text World Theory | p. 8 |
| The structure of this book | p. 13 |
| Further investigation | p. 15 |
| Further reading | p. 16 |
| Participating in Discourse | p. 18 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 18 |
| Interacting through language | p. 18 |
| Communicating in context | p. 21 |
| Making connections | p. 24 |
| Exploring context | p. 25 |
| Further investigation | p. 31 |
| Further reading | p. 33 |
| Scenes | p. 35 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 35 |
| Building a text-world | p. 35 |
| World-building in practice | p. 38 |
| Shifting text-worlds | p. 45 |
| Further investigation | p. 51 |
| Further reading | p. 52 |
| Processes | p. 53 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 53 |
| Advancing the text-world | p. 53 |
| Textual functions | p. 59 |
| Enactor relationships | p. 64 |
| Further investigation | p. 71 |
| Further reading | p. 72 |
| Layers | p. 71 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 73 |
| Hierarchies | p. 73 |
| Transcending boundaries | p. 81 |
| Fictionality | p. 83 |
| Further investigation | p. 88 |
| Further reading | p. 90 |
| Attitudes | p. 91 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 91 |
| Modality and desire | p. 91 |
| Obligation | p. 96 |
| Instruction and self-implication | p. 103 |
| Further investigation | p. 107 |
| Further reading | p. 108 |
| Distances | p. 109 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 109 |
| Knowledge and belief | p. 109 |
| Perception | p. 113 |
| Hypotheticality | p. 118 |
| Further investigation | p. 123 |
| Further reading | p. 125 |
| Narratives | p. 126 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 126 |
| Focalisation | p. 126 |
| Enactors and focalisation | p. 131 |
| Narrative deception | p. 135 |
| Further investigation | p. 143 |
| Further reading | p. 144 |
| Double-vision | p. 146 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 146 |
| Understanding metaphor | p. 146 |
| Extended metaphor | p. 149 |
| Understanding double-vision | p. 152 |
| Double-vision and self-implication | p. 156 |
| Further investigation | p. 162 |
| Further reading | p. 164 |
| Futures | p. 165 |
| Key issues in this chapter | p. 165 |
| Obscurity | p. 165 |
| Resistance | p. 170 |
| Performance | p. 172 |
| Text | p. 174 |
| Texture | p. 175 |
| References | p. 178 |
| Index | p. 189 |
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