@inbook{2ea47792bcfc406387d73645f60a5f33,
title = "Constructing a text world for The Handmaid{\textquoteright}s Tale",
abstract = "This chapter explores the benefits of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) for analysis of the dynamic process of world-building during literary reading. Building on the account of this process offered by Text World Theory (Gavins 2007) concepts from Cognitive Grammar are applied to account for the readerly experience of Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Through this analysis, the chapter offers an account of the disrupted conceptualisation of its dystopian world and the distinctive 'mind style' of its narrator in psychologically realistic terms.",
keywords = "Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, Text World Theory",
author = "Louise Nuttall",
note = "Author affiliated to the University of Nottingham on the publisher's website. SH 4/8/17. No full text in Eprints. HN 29/11/2017",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1075/lal.17.06nut",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027234049",
volume = "17",
series = "Cognitive Grammar in Literature",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing",
pages = "83--100",
editor = "Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall and Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan",
booktitle = "Linguistic Approaches to Literature",
address = "Netherlands",
}