-building elements and relates them, via the Schema theory, to the different ways in which they can interact with readers’ background knowledge to arrive at an interpretation of the extraordinary mind style of the narrator. The in-depth cognitive stylistic... analysis reveals semantic contrast in the narrator’s outer and inner worlds, illustrating how he was able to attain inner riches and freedom amidst great difficulties in life in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The study not only sheds light

This study examined the use of gerunds, such as chopping again as when I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg in English literatures through morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis. While previous studies... focused on the use of gerunds in newspapersand international corpora, this study focuses on the use of gerunds in literaturesThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2019)and The Secret Garden (2021). This study follows the conceptual framework of cognitive grammar

A stylistic device specifically known as the transitivity model was introduced by M.A.K. Halliday to explain how language functions at the semantic level. Inliterary studies, the model is used to explain how meaning is represented.... As there are only a few studies bearing upon linguistic perspectives, this paper aims to study Miranda’s characterization through the means of stylistics and to ensure that a literary meaning can be cognitively transmitted within