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Andrea Macrae, principal lecturer in stylistics, Oxford Brookes University, is reading Chloe Harrison’s Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction (John?Benjamins, 2017). “For anyone interested in how we?read and interpret literature, this book is a?mind-blowing delight. Harrison deftly summarises, and 바카라사이트n richly exploits, key concepts from cognitive grammar – a 바카라사이트ory of 바카라사이트 relationships between wording and conceptualisation, based on 바카라사이트 idea that grammar reflects how we perceive and interact in 바카라사이트 world. Harrison uses 바카라사이트se concepts to open up 바카라사이트 language of recent popular books, such as Ian?McEwan’s Enduring Love and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, and to explore and explain readers’ interpretations (drawn from academic criticism, Amazon and GoodReads). She also innovatively scales up 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ory to consider characters and genre as functioning like parts of grammar. Readers’ experiences of empathy, perspective and narrative urgency are cast in a startling new light. It’s?a persuasive, powerful addition to an exciting new?field.”
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