Authors:Carmen Mª Bretones Callejas, Susana Ridao Rodrigo, Salvador Alarcón Hermosilla Pages: 9 - 13 Abstract: This is an introduction to Cognitive Stylistics, broadly defined as the study of style from a cognitive perspective. Stylistics deals not only with the analysis of the internal linguistic features of a given linguistic proposition or a stretch of discourse, but also what lies outside the text, namely, author, sociocultural context, genre, and so on. It is founded on the main assumption that the function and meaning of a text can be interpreted in the light of its formal aspects, thus engaging with formal description and its relation to a given situation and a given cognitive context. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.7151
Authors:Craig Hamilton Pages: 15 - 27 Abstract: In this paper, I discuss La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France by Blaise Cendrars, a narrative poem first published in French in Paris in 1913. The poem has raised seemingly intractable questions for many years, given its status as one of the most important modernist poems, and one of the most important poems in 20th century French poetry. As I argue, considering some of the issues from the perspective of cognitive stylistics, especially the theory of conceptual integration, may help explain how readers make sense of this complicated poem. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.5608
Authors:Daban Qasim Jaff, Huma Hiwa, Ahmad N. Attof Pages: 29 - 44 Abstract: This paper discusses the metaphorical representation of trauma stress in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Towers falling (2016) in the light of Stylistics. The study applies insights from the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) by Lakoff & Johnson (1980) on selected metaphors from the novel. The analysis finds that the trauma-related metaphors in this novel could be divided into two types. The first one, Deja’s personal trauma metaphors, in which source domains like HALLOWEEN MASK, FREEZE, or ROBOT are used. The second one, Pop’s trauma stress is expressed by using conceptual structures from source domains of a varied nature, such as STORM, EARTHQUAKE, NIGHTMARE, DYING and WHINE. The analysis found that conceptual metaphors THE BODY IS A CONTAINER FOR EMOTION, and TRAUMA IS A CONTAINER are used to communicate trauma. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.5539
Authors:Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Pages: 45 - 57 Abstract: This research aims at examining how the cognitive stylistic model of analysis can be useful in the interpretation of African skits. The analytical process reveals how viewers make interpretive connections between the text-world and the real world, by bringing their experience and background knowledge to interact with the text. Two skits – one Nigerian and one Ghanaian – were purposively retrieved from YouTube for the analysis, using a qualitative approach within the cognitive stylistic framework of Text World Theory. We discovered a congruence of the cognitive faculty, experience, and epistemic perceptions leading to the construction of the discourse worlds of the skits. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.5593
Authors:Elena del Carmen Martínez López Pages: 59 - 82 Abstract: The aim of this work is to demonstrate and illustrate the pervasive existence of points of convergence between literature and language in general and form and meaning in particular. Specifically, the connection between language and literature is explored with specific reference to one of the germinal works of English literature, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in the light of the principles and taxonomies of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory, with special focus on requests. A further twist added to the analysis presented in this work comes from a relatively fine-nuanced contrastive (English-Spanish) analysis of requests strategies using as the database of analysis a Spanish translation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Rodríguez, 2018). PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.5513
Authors:Coral Calvo-Maturana Pages: 83 - 121 Abstract: This paper aims at exploring adoption and foster care discourse (AFD) so as to uncover the role of multimodal novel metaphor, and the resulting ad hoc concepts, in (re)addressing (AF) narratives. It specifically focuses on the picture book Speranza’s Sweater (Pusey and Mello, 2018), and the extended conceptual metaphor a life story (of a child [in adoption or foster care]) is a sweater, as well as the net of minor related metaphors. These are analysed following Romero and Soria’s (1997, 2005a, 2007, 2014 and 2016) as well as Forceville (1994, 2008)’s frameworks on, respectively, novel and multimodal metaphors. Dictionaries, thesauri, corpus-assisted tools, as well as close reading/viewing will inform the delineation of source and target domains. The paper illustrates and concludes the cognitive power of multimodal creative choices in relation to (AFD) to integrate children’s past, present, and future experiences, while strengthening their sense of identity and belonging. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.6251
Authors:Rocío Moyano Rejano Pages: 125 - 135 Abstract: This paper examines the most recent adaptations of Jane Eyre, the ones produced by Sandy Welch and Cary Fukunaga, which were released in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Jane Eyre is widely known as one of the first feminist novels written during the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, when this novel has been adapted to the screen, the concept of empowerment has not always been depicted as it was implicitly introduced in the original text. An overview of empowerment in each version of Jane Eyre will be provided asides from the revision of this aspect as it was introduced in the description in Brontë’s novel. On the other hand, the portrayal of the Brontëan heroine in both films will be also analysed as well as a revision of certain interactions with other characters that somehow influence her process of empowerment. PubDate: 2021-12-31
Authors:Carla Martínez del Barrio Pages: 137 - 149 Abstract: This article analyses Jean Rhys’ 1939 novel Good Morning, Midnight from the standpoint of spatial and gender theory. Firstly, it explores the portrayal of gendered spaces in the modern city. In order to do so, it examines how Sasha Jensen challenges spatial constraints but is then identified as a stranger to the social order. Secondly, a parallelism between the urban automatisation of production and the female body is established to explore how consumer culture affects Sasha. Finally, it examines how the influence that Sasha’s fractured subjectivity has on her social encounters, which situate her on a liminal space. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.5485
Authors:Carlos Soriano Jiménez Pages: 151 - 171 Abstract: This study lies within the framework of the years 1945-1955, which correspond to Clement Attlee’s Labourite and Winston Churchill’s Conservative administrations. The objective is to demonstrate, by means of an analysis of their speeches and the proposals of their respective political parties, that the ideological differences hindered a total agreement. These primary sources are examined from several perspectives. The main emphasis of this study falls on the ideology as a distinctive element and its influence on other fields such as education, the welfare system or the economy. The results reveal a lack of consensus based on their opposite political cultures. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.4901
Authors:Jesús Bolaño Quintero Pages: 173 - 184 Abstract: At the turn of the millennium, the young writers of the New Sincerity movement tried to create a new realist literature by getting rid of the destructive power of postmodern irony. The consecrated writers of the old postmodern guard, whose Weltanschauung was conformed to the style and the relativistic reality-processing modes of the previous paradigm, saw this change with scepticism. Nevertheless, there was a change in their sensibility when approaching certain themes. This article analyses Paul Auster’s Sunset Park as paradigmatic example of that shift in order to shed some light on its nature. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.4460
Authors:Christopher George Pages: 185 - 196 Abstract: Lillian Smith and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin provide a subversive framework for the history of the South through the genre of autobiography. This paper will explore how both authors use a double voice to articulate their confrontation with the Lost Cause. On the one hand, the child protagonist is a Southerner and therefore an insider and participant, while on the other hand, the adult protagonist subverts the dominant social discourse thanks to a critical distance which is both physical and psychological. Smith and Lumpkin use autobiography to challenge tradition, hence subverting the central roles of race and gender. PubDate: 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i22.4642
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