TY  - JOUR
A1  - Finnigan, Liz
A1  - Müller-Wood, Anja
T1  - Editorial
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - The aim of this two-part special issue of The International Journal of Literary Linguistics is to probe the implications of the cognitive turn in literary linguistics that has gone hand in hand with the field’s growing appreciation of pragmatics at the end of the twentieth century (as illustrated e.g. by MacMahon, Mey, Verdonk and Weber). The view, increasingly shared by literary linguists, that literature is a communicative endeavour between text (author) and reader has resulted in a heightened interest in the cognitive abilities that ultimately make this communication possible. Yet the ease with which the buzzword ‘cognition’ sometimes is applied to explain these abilities and processes (which are often only assumed to exist rather than substantiated with empirical evidence) seems to be at odds not least with the fact that the cognitive sciences are far from a uniform field yielding fixed and finite results. Indeed, whether or not all language phenomena are underpinned by innate cognitive rules is an issue that remains a bone of contention amongst scholars, as does the nature of these cognitive rules themselves. Even a cognitive grammarian like Ronald Langacker warns against jumping to premature conclusions about the natural foundations of language (14) and avoids making such claims in his own work. ...
KW  - Cognition
KW  - cognitive turn
KW  - literary linguistics
KW  - literary pragmatics
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48400
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484007
SN  - 2194-5594
N1  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 2
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz, Germany
ER  -