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Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics and Co-Director of the Aston Stylistics Research Group at Aston University, UK. He has research interests in cognitive poetics, the stylistics of poetry, empirical literary studies, stylistics in education, and health humanities. He is the author of thirteen books including five major research monographs, and over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited collections in stylistics. Recent books include Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics: A Practical Guide (2024, 2 nd edition, Bloomsbury, with Chloe Harrison), The Language of Siegfried Sassoon (2022, Palgrave), New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style (2021, Bloomsbury, with Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall), and Text World Theory and Keats’ Poetry (2013, Bloomsbury). He is currently working on a monograph on poetry written during the Covid-19 pandemic, supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant, and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
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https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/marcello-giovanelli
Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics
In this talk, I demonstrate the value of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 2008) to stylistics. I first provide an overview of Cognitive Grammar, outlining the notion of ‘construal’, drawing on short extracts for exemplification. I then provide a detailed analysis of Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Futility’ (Owen 1920), using Cognitive Grammar to examine the specific ways in which the language of the poem and Owen’s modelling of the speaker’s consciousness position readers to imagine the experience of war and the relationship between humans and landscapes, and to reflect on broader philosophical questions. My analysis also draws on and highlights how these concerns are manifest in online educational websites, which present authoritative readings of the poem, and thus model particular ways of understanding war poetry.
References
Langacker, R.W. (2008), Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Owen, W. (1920), Poems by Wilfred Owen, ed. S. Sassoon, London: Chatto and Windus.
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