Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Cognition
by "Kieran OHalloran", "Professor Kieran OHalloran"
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

This text offers a new way forward for highlighting language manipulation on behalf of lay-readers as well as for enhancing the interpretative authority of the analyst. It accomplishes this through the innovation of a model of lay-reader processing. The model is an original synthesis of elements from four contemporary cognitive frameworks - connectionism, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistic evidence on inference generation, relevance theory.