Louise Nuttall is a Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she teaches linguistics and stylistics.

This book proposes a new and compelling account of a central phenomenon in the reading of narrative fiction: mind style, or the experiencing of distinctive characters’ minds in response to patterns of linguistic choices in texts. By systematically applying insights from cognitive grammar to the language of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Matheson’s I am Legend and Ballard’s The Drowned World, Nuttall makes a ground-breaking contribution to cognitive poetics/stylistics, cognitive linguistics and the study of speculative fiction.

• 1. Introduction2. Mind style 3. Cognitive grammar4. Syntax and thought5. Lexis and knowledge6. Transitivity and worldview 7. Metaphor and mind8. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Louise Nuttall is a Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she teaches linguistics and stylistics.

This book proposes a new and compelling account of a central phenomenon in the reading of narrative fiction: mind style, or the experiencing of distinctive characters’ minds in response to patterns of linguistic choices in texts. By systematically applying insights from cognitive grammar to the language of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Matheson’s I am Legend and Ballard’s The Drowned World, Nuttall makes a ground-breaking contribution to cognitive poetics/stylistics, cognitive linguistics and the study of speculative fiction.

• 1. Introduction2. Mind style 3. Cognitive grammar4. Syntax and thought5. Lexis and knowledge6. Transitivity and worldview 7. Metaphor and mind8. ConclusionBibliographyIndex