Dialogism as a category which reflects communicative interaction between the author of emotive prose and the reader

The article shows the importance of study of text categories. In this respect cognitive science plays a great role as it investigates the processes of acquisition, conceptualization and the use of information. The category of dialogism can be viewed as a fundamental feature of emotive prose. Indeed, the author of a story tries to speak his / her idea to the readers, who in their turn are supposed to decode it. As a result we deal with the process of communication between the reader and the writer which brings out new meanings to the discourse.

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Menus for the Soul Changing Food Landscapes in Contemporary Japan

10.30687/978-88-6969-559-9/011 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paola Scrolavezza

Keyword(s):

Food Culture ◽

Local Identity ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

Fundamental Feature ◽

New Meanings ◽

Comfort Food ◽

Local Traditions ◽

International Success

As Nancy K. Stalker (2018) points out, in recent years food in Japan has established itself as a fundamental feature of national and local identity and became one of Japan's most influential cultural brands. An intriguing example is the B-kyū gurume boom, the celebration of creative versions of typical comfort food, intertwined with the obsession for local traditions. Such processes are reflected in representations of food in media and arts: contemporary culture plays a fundamental role in shaping but also in connoting food culture with new meanings. The aim of this paper is to analyze the construction and narration of contemporary Japanese food culture in one of the most recent and successful franchises, Shin’ya Shokudō, the popular manga by Abe Yarō, which inspired the Netflix series that enjoyed unexpected international success in 2017.

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Language as a mental travel guide

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003182 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Charles P. Davis ◽

Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽

Eiling Yee

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Human Cognition ◽

Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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