THE INTEGRATION OF EMOTION IN COGNITION – DAVID MIALLAND THE DEFAMILIARIZATION THEORY
THE INTEGRATION OF EMOTION IN COGNITION – DAVID MIALLAND THE DEFAMILIARIZATION THEORY

Summary/Abstract: The present study deals with the findings of the recent research in linguistics and neuroscience concerning the role that emotions and affect play in cognition. In the study I will refer to the role of metaphor in structuring cognition and conceptualization and to the fact that metaphor as a crucial conceptual operation also works (or especially) at the level of the emotions. The studies referred to are Antonio Damasio’s somatic markers hypothesis and David Miall’s understanding of the role of emotion, metaphor, and foregrounding in literariness. David Miall’s approach (within the Reader Response theory) is called the Defamiliarization Theory.

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