English Stylistics: A Cognitive Grammar Approach

Zeki Hamawand

Mar 2023 · Springer Nature

About this ebook

This accessible textbook hinges on the central assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar, introducing students to the analytical tools they need to approach Stylistics, an essential area in language analysis. The author verifies the claim that alterations in style, triggered by different cognitive processes, reflect alterations in meaning, and shows how they are employed to achieve particular effects in context. The book links theory with practice, aiming both to acquaint students with the cognitive principles that account for stylistic expressions, and to provide them with the tools and techniques to conduct their own analyses. The textbook explores and explains how writers use the resources of language to create meaning, and how readers interpret texts. It will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in English Linguistics, as well as those working on other languages and in related areas such as Composition and Creative Writing.

About the author

​Zeki Hamawand is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Kirkuk University and a senior lecturer at Sulaimaniya University, Iraq. His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of morphology, lexicology, syntax and semantics, and he has published several books, textbooks and articles on these topics. His scholarly books include Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes (2009). His textbooks include Morphology in English: Word Formation in Cognitive Grammar (2011), Semantics: A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning (2016), and Modern Schools of Linguistic Thought: A Crash Course (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).