Rendering, generalization and variation : On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics

KNOTKOVÁ, Magdaléna and Wei-lun LU. Rendering, generalization and variation : On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics. Cognitive Linguistic Studies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020, vol. 7, No 1, p. 201-221. ISSN 2213-8722. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00054.kno.

Basic information

• Original name: Rendering, generalization and variation : On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics
• Authors: KNOTKOVÁ, Magdaléna (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Wei-lun LU (158 Taiwan, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Cognitive Linguistic Studies, Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020, 2213-8722.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Netherlands
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/20:00117495
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00054.kno
• Keywords in English: construal; construction; generalization; parallel texts; stylistics
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The article presents a case study of how the use of multiple parallel texts may be employed as a useful research method in cognitive poetics, using the English version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and its four published Czech versions as the samples. In the analysis, we examine the language of space in alternative verbalizations of the same literary scene across languages (English and Czech) and within the target language (Czech), and the different mental images invoked by the different ways of verbalizing the same scene. Our analysis shows that the use of multiple parallel texts can be a helpful research method in cognitive poetics, in the sense that the method is capable of providing naturalistic and representative linguistic evidence of how languages systematically differ, even for a domain as basic as space.

Links

• MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II (Acronym: ReComE 2020)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A