Not so fresh in the mind: a forensic linguistic analysis of suspected memorized narrative essays

Graham Kennedy

doi:10.1558/sll.2003.10.1.75

'Overcoming' the 'Battlefield of the Mind'

Language and Psychoanalysis ◽

10.7565/landp.v7i2.1588 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 29-56

Author(s):

Elizabeth Anna Claydon ◽

Joanne Whitehouse-Hart

Keyword(s):

Object Relations ◽

Emotional Health ◽

Linguistic Analysis ◽

Media Usage ◽

Language And Thought ◽

Discursive Analysis ◽

Self Help ◽

Online Tools ◽

The Mind

This article offers a psychoanalytically informed discursive analysis of the teachings of two leading Christian digital evangelists in the field of Christian ‘Self-help’ texts: Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen. Meyer and Osteen both have global popularity and multimedia presences. Influenced by psychosocial theory, we combine linguistic analysis with the ideas of Kleinian and post-Kleinian object relations. Exploring Meyer’s and Osteen’s media usage, we argue that digital and online tools have enhanced their connective ability with their immense audiences. It is argued that such discursive spaces create new psychosocial possibilities and contradictions for their messages of emotional health and self-governance through a combination of scripture and psychological approaches common in secular self-help communication. Both preachers focus on changing ‘language’ and ‘thought’, employing techniques and scripture that require the believer to excessively self-focus, and this process revolves emotionally around the construction of images of an omnipotent, good God and the mind as a spiritual battleground between ‘good’ objects (God) and ‘bad’ (Satan).

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Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428521.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Gillian Knoll

Keyword(s):

William Shakespeare ◽

Early Modern ◽

Linguistic Analysis ◽

John Lyly ◽

Cognitive Theories ◽

Different Types ◽

Considerable Length ◽

The Mind ◽

Erotic Desire

Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stage. To “conceive” desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive and philosophical approaches, this book advances a new methodology for analysing how early modern plays dramatize inward erotic experience. Grounded in cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors—motion, space, and creativity—that shape erotic desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare. Although Lyly and Shakespeare wrote for different types of theatres and only partially-overlapping audiences, both dramatists created characters who speak erotic language at considerable length and in extraordinary depth. Their metaphors do more than merely narrate or express eros; they constitute characters’ erotic experiences. Each of the book’s three sections explores a fundamental conceptual metaphor, first its philosophical underpinnings and then its capacity for dramatizing erotic experience in Lyly’s and Shakespeare’s plays. Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare provides a literary and linguistic analysis of metaphor that credits the role of cognition in the experience of erotic desire, even of pleasure itself.

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Usage-based dialectology

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics ◽

10.1075/arcl.6.03sze ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 23-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Veronika Szelid ◽

Dirk Geeraerts

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Linguistics ◽

Linguistic Analysis ◽

Character Traits ◽

Conceptual System ◽

Semantic Relationships ◽

Language Structure ◽

Cognitive Linguistic ◽

The Mind

Applying concepts of Cognitive Linguistics to dialectological data of a traditional kind, the present paper addresses the question whether differences of culture and conceptualization could be detected language-internally, not just across languages. At the same time, it shows that the traditional methodology of evaluating dialectological data at the level of language structure can be challenged by a usage-based cognitive linguistic analysis. The language variant in focus is the Moldavian Southern Csango, an archaic Hungarian dialect. We investigate the conceptualization of forty internal qualities (emotions and character traits) on the basis of two usage-based types of analysis: one in which we try to determine the entrenchment of the investigated concepts, and one in which we have a look at the semantic relationships between them. The two approaches provide converging evidence that negative concepts are more elaborated in the mind of the Csangos and that the most crucial factor organizing their conceptual system is “morality”.

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How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1800033x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Author(s):

Peter DeScioli

Keyword(s):

Economic Thought ◽

History Of Economic Thought ◽

Homo Economicus ◽

Economic Theories ◽

Target Article ◽

History Of ◽

The Mind ◽

And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

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