Potential and Actual Cognitive-Emotional Engagement with Characters: A Response to Michael Whitenton and Bonnie Howe & Eve Sweetser

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Biblical Interpretation-A Journal of Contemporary Approaches Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI:10.1163/15685152-29040006

Ralf Schneider

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This article addresses the contributions by Michael Whitenton, and Bonnie Howe and Eve Sweetser, in the present volume. I endorse all three contributors’ use of cognitive-linguistic approaches, highlighting their helpfulness for the reconstruction of frames that shape the reading experience of audiences located in different historical and cultural contexts. The two chapters meticulously trace the complexity and dynamics of understanding exemplary biblical characters. I emphasise that the level of attention to linguistic detail displayed by cognitive stylistics is a desideratum for a reader-oriented analysis of a text’s potential reading effects. At the same time, I question some assumptions in cognitive linguistics concerning the cognitive-emotional processes real readers are actually likely to perform. The two chapters serve as a starting point for me to discuss general tendencies in recent cognitive and empirical literary studies, which have perhaps overstated the intensity and impact of some processes, while overlooking others that may be just as important.

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角色的潜在和实际认知情感投入:对Michael Whitenton和Bonnie Howe & Eve Sweetser的回应

本文讨论了Michael Whitenton、Bonnie Howe和Eve Sweetser在本卷中的贡献。我赞同三位作者对认知语言学方法的使用，强调了他们对框架重建的帮助，这些框架塑造了处于不同历史和文化背景下的读者的阅读体验。这两章细致地追溯了理解模范圣经人物的复杂性和动态。我强调，认知文体学对语言细节的关注程度是对文本潜在阅读效果的读者导向分析的必要条件。与此同时，我对认知语言学中关于真实读者实际可能执行的认知-情感过程的一些假设提出质疑。这两章是我讨论最近认知和实证文学研究的一般趋势的起点，这些研究可能夸大了某些过程的强度和影响，而忽略了其他可能同样重要的过程。

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期刊介绍： This innovative and highly acclaimed journal publishes articles on various aspects of critical biblical scholarship in a complex global context. The journal provides a medium for the development and exercise of a whole range of current interpretive trajectories, as well as deliberation and appraisal of methodological foci and resources. Alongside individual essays on various subjects submitted by authors, the journal welcomes proposals for special issues that focus on particular emergent themes and analytical trends. Over the past two decades, Biblical Interpretation has provided a professional forum for pushing the disciplinary boundaries of biblical studies: not only in terms of what biblical texts mean, but also what questions to ask of biblical texts, as well as what resources to use in reading biblical literature. The journal has thus the distinction of serving as a site for theoretical reflection and methodological experimentation.