World Building: Discourse in the Mind

Book Overview

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472586530
• ISBN13: 9781472586537
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"