This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants wh
Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action,
Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cogniti
The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and econo
Raphael Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful and ambitious