Cognitive Stylistics Quiz

Cognitive Stylistics

• Integrates linguistics analysis with cognitive theories to extend the boundaries of linguistic analysis of literature.
• Articulates different theories such as schema theory, cognitive metaphor theory, text world theory, foregrounding theory, and mental space theory.

Purpose Stylistics

• Focuses on understanding the stylistic choices made by authors in their use of language within texts.
• Examines how linguistic features such as vocabulary, syntax, imagery, and figurative language are employed to achieve specific purposes.
• Purposes include conveying emotions, establishing tone, highlighting themes, or shaping readers' interpretations.

Critical Stylistics

• Combines stylistic tools with critical discourse analysis to examine the text's impact in social and political contexts.
• Focuses on the connection between language and ideology, emphasizing how language shapes social and cultural realities.

Affective Stylistics

• Describes the necessary reliance of the critic upon their affective responses to stylistic elements in the text.
• Analyzes the developing responses of the reader in relation to the words as they succeed one another on the page.

Feminist Stylistics

• Uses language study and linguistic theory to set a rationale for feminist text analysis.
• Analyzes the way that point of view, agency, metaphor, or transitivity are unexpectedly close to matters of gender.

Film Stylistics

• Refers to the various techniques and elements filmmakers use to convey meaning, evoke emotions, and create a unique visual and auditory experience.
• Elements include cinematography, lighting, color palette, editing, sound design, and narrative structure.

Formalist Stylistics

• Favors form over thematic concerns within a text or its relationship with the world outside.
• Excludes or sidelines factors such as authorial intent, and the cultural and sociopolitical background of a text from its study.
• The main idea is that the most important aspect of a work is its form.

Functional Stylistics

• Emphasizes the relationship between language and its functions in communication.
• Examines how linguistic choices are influenced by the context, purpose, and audience of communication.
• Aims to understand how language functions to achieve specific communicative goals, such as persuasion, expression, or clarification.