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- Title: Conceptual Integration As a Source of Discourse Coherence: A Theoretical Approach with Some Examples from William Boyd's "My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans".
- Author : revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Atlantis
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 260 KB
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This article explores the cognitive component of discourse coherence using the parameters established by the conceptual integration network model. It contends that together with other more widely studied facets of coherence construction (e.g. semantic and pragmatic), the cognitive operations described in the four-space model of cognition play an active and decisive role in the building and maintenance of coherence at the representational level, and that their identification provides excellent analytical tools. This claim is supported with evidence from William Boyd's short story "My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans," which presents an extremely tight blend between the real and the unreal in the mind of the protagonist. Unfolding this blend, and recognising the cognitive operations at work, helps us identify some of the resources employed in the story to achieve a skilfully planned and highly complex coherent effect. **********