Ungrammaticality in poetry, when it is considered 'acceptable' by literary critics, has been characteristically dismissed as 'poetic licence', though poets are somehow exempt from the constraints on linguistic usage. Autonomous (traditional or transformational) grammar no explanation for occurrence of forms such Emily Dickinson's -self anaphor pronouns. On contrary, under a cognitive account, her apparently ungrammatical anaphors perfectly grammatical. anaphors, grounded mental spaces,...

Book Review| September 01 2015 Authorial Presence in Poetry: Some Cognitive Reappraisals Crane, Mary Thomas, Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 265 pp.Deppman, Jed, Trying to Think Emily Dickinson. Amherst: of Massachusetts 2008. 278 pp.Holland, Norman N., The Brain Robert Frost: A Approach Literature. New York: Routledge, 1988. viii 200 pp.Wójcik-Leese, Elżbieta, Poetic Readings Elizabeth Bishop: Portrait a Mind Thinking. Berlin:...

This article aims to show that Fauconnier and Turner’s conceptual integration network or ‘blending’ theory can provide an integrated coherent account of the cognitive mechanisms by which poetry is constructed construed. Taking as its example Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘The Applicant’, a already analyzed Elena Semino from perspectives discourse, possible worlds, schema theories, this shows how optimality constraints interact complex blending metaphors in reveal poet’s own conflicted attitudes about...

This paper argues that the cognitive sciences need to incorporate aesthetic study of arts into their methodologies fully understand nature human processes, because reflect insights experience are unobtainable by natural sciences. These differ from those acquired scientific exploration, they arise not conceptual logic reason but precategorial intuition imagination. Aesthetics provides a methodology whereby we able how art enables us emotions caused sense impressions. lies at heart...

Purpose. This paper presents a case report of collaborative work between speech and language therapy (SLT) music (MT) in the an individual presenting with complex communication difficulties lability caused by pseudo-Parkinsonian vascular disease.Design. MT intervention was used to investigate whether participation could be enabled client problems as well facilitate change parameters which remained unresponsive conventional SLT intervention. A single design measured well-being using pre-,...

Contemporary research in the cognitive sciences provides tools for humanities scholars to make explicit nature of creativity arts and their importance development human cognition. From this perspective, notion as play takes on new meaning. In his book, Finite Infinite Games, James P. Carse explores through metaphor LIFE IS A GAME way we are both finite infinite players worlds life nature. Three elements define distinction between play: an game is boundless, dramatic, open; games bounded,...

In this article the author explores notion of possible bidirectionality in metaphor through an examination Black's (1962, 1993) interaction theory, Fauconnier and Turner's (2002) blending several studies that document cases interdomain influence metaphorical expressions. particular, reviews Forceville's (1995) examples film, advertisement, poetry, a real-life incident. further exploring more general notions workings various genres, concludes not only is possible, it explains how arts enable...

This response to the five articles in this special issue on blending focuses how power of as a basic human cognitive ability not surprisingly extends into all aspects creativity, illuminating such literary forms narrative perspective, character and identity formation, poetic styles, well reader reception or cultural development transmission. In their extension earlier studies poetry drama, film, prose narratives, these reveal possibilities broader scope for theory literature. However, if is...

Two previously unassociated techniques have been combined to provide an objective analysis of the function whole vocal tract. Xeroradiography and electrolaryngography quantifiable visual information on soft tissue changes associated with voice disorders. Aberrent modes vibration in fold area are displayed by electrolaryngograph. The aberrant muscle patterns supraglottic regions seen xeroradiographs as quantitative anatomical parameters. Specific muscles involved excess tension is now...

My attempt in this paper is to further the discussion of role conceptual blending cognitive poetics by looking more closely at processes which readers interpret a literary text. I start describing results an informal experiment determine what mapping strategies people actually use solve analogical problem. discovered that tend map on basis similarity and relation; they do not spontaneously apply abstract reasoning based form may be unique human beings, Holyoak Thagard (1995) call system...

Research Article| June 01 2008 Revisiting/Revisioning the Icon Through Metaphor Margaret H. Freeman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 353–370. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-028 Cite Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Citation Freeman; Metaphor. 1 2008; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu input auto suggest filter...

When I was in graduate school Amherst, Massachusetts, over thirty years ago, anentire semester’s seminar devoted to the poetry of Robert Frost. At time, he wasconsidered great man American poetry. The peak his reputation came whenJohn F. Kennedy invited him read a poem at inauguration 1961. By contrast,Emily Dickinson barely blip on horizon; she appeared briefly (in half onethree-hour session) nineteenth century Both poetsclaimed Amherst as their home, having been born and lived her entire...

From conceptual to cognitive integrationMy attempt in this paper is further the discussion of role blending poetics by looking more closely at processes which readers interpret a literary text.I start describing results an informal experiment determine what mapping strategies people actually use solve analogical problem.I discovered that tend map on basis similarity and relation; they do not spontaneously apply abstract reasoning based form may be unique human beings, Holyoak Thagard (1995)...