Cognitive Rhetoric: The Cognitive Poetics of Political Discourse
In: Linguistic Approaches to Literature Ser v.31
Intro -- Cognitive Rhetoric -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Editorial page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Political discourse -- 1.3 Political/Critical Discourse Analysis -- 1.4 Classical rhetoric -- 1.5 Stylistics -- 1.6 Cognitive stylistics -- 1.7 Summary of aims and methods -- 1.8 The structure of this book -- 2. Layers of ethos -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Ethos, ethics and narrative theory -- 2.3 Three layers of ethos -- 2.4 The implied author in political discourse -- 2.5 The narrator - The orchestrator -- 2.6 The speaker/s -- 2.7 Summary -- 3. The conceptual ecology of ethos -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The cognitive dynamics of impression formation -- 3.3 From dialect to style -- 3.4 From style to cognition -- 3.5 Performance models -- 3.6 Character schemata -- 3.7 Reading political minds -- 3.8 Summary -- 4. Logos as representation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Common ground and the enthymeme -- 4.3 (Mind) modelling and the Idealised Common Ground -- 4.4 A (Cognitive) Grammar of Resistance -- 4.5 Re-specifying and resistant reading -- 4.6 Re-scoping and resistant reading -- 4.7 Re-profiling, re-scanning and resistant reading -- 4.8 Irony as resistance -- 4.9 Summary -- 5. Logos as conceptual mapping -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Mapping and example -- 5.3 Metaphor and/as example -- 5.4 Resisting example -- 5.5 Satire as example -- 5.6 Politics in The Thick of It -- 5.7 The Thick of It in politics -- 5.8 Summary -- 6. Rhetorical ambience -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Affect and emotion -- 6.3 Emotion in Political Discourse Analysis -- 6.4 Ambience -- 6.5 Tone -- 6.6 Atmosphere -- 6.7 Rhetorical ambience -- 6.8 Ambience and affect in immigration rhetoric -- 6.9 Summary -- 7. Political resonance -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Political resonance -- 7.3 An attentional model