Lines on feeling: Foregrounding, aesthetics and meaning

Language and Literature

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-213

  Van Peer, Willie ^a   Hakemulder, Jémeljan ^b,d   Zyngier, Sonia ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Institute for Media and Representation   (Netherlands)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aesthetic appreciation; Deviation; Discourse analysis; Emotional impact of style; Empirical research; Evaluation; Interpretation; Novelty; Style; Stylistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249133197     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963947007075985     Document Type: Article

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