Michael Sinding
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Sinding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinding |
| SIGNATURE | SINDING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Words to Worldview: Framing Narrative Genres
This article draws together overlapping cognitive analyses of political thought, emotion, and language and shows how they can be supplemented with literary analyses of genre to illuminate the workings of the French Revolution debate of 1790s Britain. It focuses on enriching George Lakoff 's theory of the multiple levels of framing in discourse, concentrating on the interplay of argument and narrative frames. Studies of emotion and mood in narrati…
From Fact to Fiction: The Question of Genre in Autobiography and Early First-Person Novels
From Fact to Fiction:The Question of Genre in Autobiography and Early First-Person Novels Michael Sinding (bio) There is not a more perplexing affair in life to me, than to set about telling anyone who I am—for there is scarce any body I cannot give a better account of than of myself. Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Let us leave, if possible, myself;—But 'tis impossible,—I must go along with you to the end of the work. Laurence Sterne, Tri…
Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory, andGravity's Rainbow
This article argues for a cognitive view of genre. Specifically, a cognitive view of categorization helps clarify how texts can participate in multiple genres-by instantiating several different genres more or less equally well and by mixing several genres. I respond to certain recurring assumptions in recent work on genre about the nature of categories and categorization, elaborating on John Frow's incisive critique of misconceptions of genre but…
Genera Mixta: Conceptual Blending and Mixed Genres in Ulysses
This essay draws on cognitive science and cognitive linguistics to illuminate what may be the most important issue in genre theory at present: genre mixture and hybridization. Genres have been very productively treated as cognitive schemas, but so far such treatments have not adequately accounted for critics' descriptions of their encounters with complex works, because they have lacked a model of how schemas are modified, rearranged, and combined…
Beyond essence (or, getting over there): Cognitive and dialetical theories of genre
Genre theories frequently err by shortchanging the full range of genre processes. Focusing on only one stage or context — tradition, author, text or reception — can hide a whole world of genre-relevant facts. A more adequate analysis should consider at least the following factors in the prototypical sequence leading to a new genre member: There is a collection of past works constituting a genre; a writer reads some of those works, and then models…
Metaphor in the Raw
Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory, andGravity's Rainbow
This article argues for a cognitive view of genre. Specifically, a cognitive view of categorization helps clarify how texts can participate in multiple genres-by instantiating several different genres more or less equally well and by mixing several genres. I respond to certain recurring assumptions in recent work on genre about the nature of categories and categorization, elaborating on John Frow's incisive critique of misconceptions of genre but…
Beyond essence (or, getting over there): Cognitive and dialetical theories of genre
Genre theories frequently err by shortchanging the full range of genre processes. Focusing on only one stage or context — tradition, author, text or reception — can hide a whole world of genre-relevant facts. A more adequate analysis should consider at least the following factors in the prototypical sequence leading to a new genre member: There is a collection of past works constituting a genre; a writer reads some of those works, and then models…
Metaphor in the Raw
Beyond essence (or, getting over there): Cognitive and dialetical theories of genre
Genre theories frequently err by shortchanging the full range of genre processes. Focusing on only one stage or context — tradition, author, text or reception — can hide a whole world of genre-relevant facts. A more adequate analysis should consider at least the following factors in the prototypical sequence leading to a new genre member: There is a collection of past works constituting a genre; a writer reads some of those works, and then models…
Genera Mixta: Conceptual Blending and Mixed Genres in Ulysses
This essay draws on cognitive science and cognitive linguistics to illuminate what may be the most important issue in genre theory at present: genre mixture and hybridization. Genres have been very productively treated as cognitive schemas, but so far such treatments have not adequately accounted for critics' descriptions of their encounters with complex works, because they have lacked a model of how schemas are modified, rearranged, and combined…
From Fact to Fiction: The Question of Genre in Autobiography and Early First-Person Novels
From Fact to Fiction:The Question of Genre in Autobiography and Early First-Person Novels Michael Sinding (bio) There is not a more perplexing affair in life to me, than to set about telling anyone who I am—for there is scarce any body I cannot give a better account of than of myself. Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Let us leave, if possible, myself;—But 'tis impossible,—I must go along with you to the end of the work. Laurence Sterne, Tri…
Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory, andGravity's Rainbow
This article argues for a cognitive view of genre. Specifically, a cognitive view of categorization helps clarify how texts can participate in multiple genres-by instantiating several different genres more or less equally well and by mixing several genres. I respond to certain recurring assumptions in recent work on genre about the nature of categories and categorization, elaborating on John Frow's incisive critique of misconceptions of genre but…
From Words to Worldview: Framing Narrative Genres
This article draws together overlapping cognitive analyses of political thought, emotion, and language and shows how they can be supplemented with literary analyses of genre to illuminate the workings of the French Revolution debate of 1790s Britain. It focuses on enriching George Lakoff 's theory of the multiple levels of framing in discourse, concentrating on the interplay of argument and narrative frames. Studies of emotion and mood in narrati…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works)