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Helle M Davidsen

Literary semiotics and cognitive semantics

This article explores some junctions between literary semiotics and cognitive semantics with special focus on the cultural aspect of meaning and contextualized meaning construction. A cognitive model is introduced to account for cultural meaning and is related to the Greimasian concepts of figuration and configuration. A blending model is presented in regard to a more general discussion of contextualized meaning, and its literary usefulness is demonstrated in an analysis of a Proustian analogy.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2007, 06/2007
Pages: 337 - 349

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