“Cognitive linguistics, with its following in cognitive poetics, ignores the question of generic distinctiveness (what is properly narrative about narrative perspective, as against perspective in descriptive texts, for example). As falsely, it assumes that language is the core and model of (narrative) discourse and thus that narrative resides in coded linguistic forms.”
a semiotics professor in Israel, in Poetics Today Vol. 32, No. 3
pretend the whole thing is one sentence separated by a semicolon in place of the period
(via theory-to-praxis)
