New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style In recent years the Cognitive Grammar account of language and mind has become an influential framework for the study of textual meaning and interpretation. This book is the first to bring together applications of Cognitive Grammar for a range of stylistic purposes including the analysis of both literary and non literary discourse. Demonstrating the diverse range of uses for Cognitive Grammar chapters apply this framework to diverse text types including poetry narrative fiction comics press reports political discourse and music as well as exploring its potential for the teaching of language and literature in a range of contexts. Combining cutting edge research in cognitive critical and pedagogical stylistics New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style showcases the latest developments in this field and offers new insights into our experiences of literary and non literary texts by drawing on current understandings of language and cognition. Introduction Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University UK) Chloe Harrison (Aston University UK) and Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield UK) Part I: Cognitive Grammar in Literary Contexts 1. Re Cognising Free Indirect Discourse Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham UK) 2. The Dynamicity of Construal Embodied Memory and (Mental) Time Travel in Mohsin Hamids Exit West Ann Holm (Linnaeus University Sweden) 3. Construal Blending and Metaphoric Worlds in Francis Harveys The Deaf Woman in the Glen Nigel Mcloughlin (University of Gloucestershire UK) 4. Guilty Grammar: See saw Perspective and Morality in a Poem by E.E. Cummings Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield UK) 5. Modelling Intentionality in Cognitive Grammar: Critical and Literary Applications Matthew Voice (University of Sheffield UK) 6. Subject and Object and The Nature of Reality in Are You My Mother Richard Finn (University of Sheffield UK) Part II: Cognitive Grammar in Non Literary and Applied Contexts 7. 28 Palestinians Die : A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Mystification in Press Coverage of State Violence on the Gaza Border Chris Hart (Lancaster University UK) 8. Hmmm Yes but Wheres the Beef Cognitive Grammar and the Active Audience in Political Discourse Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 9. All The Figures I Used to See: Using Cognitive Grammar to Grapple With Rhythmic and Intertextual Meaning making in Radioheads Pyramid Song Clara Neary (University of Chester UK) 10. Cognitive Grammar as a Tool for the Creation of Multimodal Texts Alison Bown (independent scholar UK) 11. From Theoretical to Pedagogical Grammar: The Challenges of Writing a Textbook on Cognitive Grammar Marcello Giovanelli and Chloe Harrison (Aston University UK) 12. Recontextualizing Cognitive Grammar for School Teaching Ian Cushing (Brunel University UK) 13. Towards a Concept driven Pedagogy: A Model of Linguistic Knowledge Sally Zacharias (University of Glasgow UK) 14. Coda (Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University UK) Chloe Harrison (Aston University UK) and Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield UK).