TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vaeßen, Julia
A1  - Lothmann, Timo
T1  - Do you read me? metaphor as a pathway to the conceptualisation of literary identity
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - Establishing coherent identity patterns for literary characters in novels is a difficult task. In this respect, we assume that readers rely on pre-stored cultural models in order to construct mental models of the text content, including character identity. By significantly extending the approach by Van Dijk and Kintsch and going beyond the related accounts of Schneider and of Culpeper, we aim to clarify the constitutive role of conceptual metaphor as proposed by Lakoff et al. in processes of literary identity construction. The analysis of a corpus of three contemporary novels supports our claim that conceptual metaphors and the mapping of domains involved interact with cultural models and connect text phenomena to such prior knowledge structures. On this basis, we provide an integrated model of literary identity construction which acknowledges the constitutive value of conceptual metaphors in literary identity construction.
KW  - Cognitive Linguistics
KW  - Conceptual Metaphor
KW  - Cultural Model
KW  - Identity
KW  - Mental Model Construction
KW  - Reception Theory
KW  - Barnes
KW  - Doyle
KW  - Winterson
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48402
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484023
SN  - 2194-5594
N1  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz, Germany
ER  -