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Journal of Literary Semantics

An International Review

ISSN: 1613-3838

Herausgegeben von: Marina Lambrou

Begründet von: Trevor Eaton

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The aim of the Journal of Literary Semantics is to concentrate the endeavors of theoretical linguistics upon those texts traditionally classed as “literary”, in the belief that such texts are a central, not a peripheral, concern of linguistics.

The Journal of Literary Semantics, founded by Trevor Eaton in 1972 and edited by him for thirty years, has pioneered and encouraged research into the relations between linguistics and literature. It is widely read by theoretical and applied linguists, narratologists, poeticians, philosophers and psycholinguists. JLS publishes articles on all aspects of literary semantics.

The Journal of Literary Semantics is an international peer-reviewed journal that continues to have an important place in the intersecting worlds of literary semantics, cognitive poetics, and stylistics. The Journal　aims to advance our understanding of the structures, dynamics, and significations of literary texts by publishing articles on theoretical and empirical research. This includes articles that relate the study of literature to other disciplines such as psychology and history, as well as articles dealing with pedagogy and other educational issues inherent in the study of literature. Central to each submission should be an engagement with the text (or texts) through the presentation, analysis and discussion of findings for original insights.

We welcome submissions on the following topics.

Topics

Stylistics
Cognitive poetics
Narratology
Pedagogical stylistics
Translation　
Adaptation　
Reader response and empathy studies
Psycholinguistics
Literary semantics

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Research articles, review articles

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The Journal of Literary Semantics was founded by Trevor Eaton in 1972.

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Band 52 Heft 2

Oktober 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 6. Oktober 2023

Frontmatter

Seiten: i-iii

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Articles

6. Oktober 2023

Introduction: stylistic approaches to narrative empathy

Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla, Fransina Stradling

Seiten: 103-121

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This article introduces the special issue by outlining the current state of research into the role of textual-linguistic features in eliciting narrative empathy. Firstly, we address the complexities around defining the term ‘narrative empathy’ and provide some definitional criteria. We then review the ways in which the role of language in narrative empathy has been studied to date in narratology, literary studies, empirical study of literature and stylistics. Based on this review, we argue that stylistic approaches allow for the much-needed exploration of specific linguistic techniques that may contribute to narrative empathy, while also taking into account other contextual factors to address the local nature of reading effects. Finally, we summarise how the contributions to this special issue showcase the affordances of stylistic analysis for the study of narrative empathy and offer new insights into the ways narrative empathy is elicited during the reading process.

6. Oktober 2023

The role of pathetic fallacy in shaping narrative empathy

Fransina Stradling, Kimberley Pager-McClymont

Seiten: 123-143

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One way in which character emotion is communicated in texts is through pathetic fallacy (PF), a figure of speech that projects emotions onto surroundings, which can be conceptualised in terms of variations on the conceptual metaphor emotion is surroundings. This article explores the empathetic affordances of this emotion metaphor, presenting evidence for the ways readers exploit the linguistic forms of PF in Alice Walker’s short story The Flowers to empathise with its protagonist. We draw on think-aloud data and post-reading reflections to analyse evidence of PF perception and empathy, using Pager-McClymont’s protocol for analysing PF perception and Fernandez-Quintanilla’s framework for analysing self-report of empathy. Findings show that (1) PF’s implicit communication of emotions affords empathy even when readers do not recognise the narrative technique, and that (2) specific PF instantiations afford empathy depending on underlying conceptual metaphor, textual context and correspondence with readers’ experiential background.

6. Oktober 2023

From witness to accomplice: the manipulation of readers’ empathy through consciousness representation in Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley

Juliette Bourget

Seiten: 145-161

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Within the field of narrative empathy studies, the concept of “negative empathy,” meaning a sharing of emotions with morally negative characters, has become increasingly discussed. Through the examination of The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith, this article contributes new insights into narratological and stylistic devices eliciting readers’ empathy. This study analyses responses from expert and non-expert readers to understand how they conceptualise empathy and qualify their engagement with the novel’s eponymous character. I argue that the novel’s figural narration, which involves extensive displays of the character’s mind and silencing the narrator’s moral guidance, invites empathy. Finally, I suggest that Highsmith manipulates her readers through three related stylistic techniques (free indirect discourse, stylistic contagion and equivocal sentences), which blur the lines between the third-person narration and the character’s inner discourse. By insidiously presenting the hero’s behaviour as sensible and justified, Highsmith persuades readers to become not only witnesses but accomplices to Ripley’s crimes.

6. Oktober 2023

Exploring the potential of sentiment analysis for the study of negative empathy

Carmen Bonasera

Seiten: 163-189

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In connection to literature, negative empathy is a sophisticated form of narrative empathy with fictional characters portrayed as markedly evil and seductive at the same time. Several studies on narrative engagement have explored negative empathy mainly from a theoretical perspective. Conversely, empirical approaches have rarely delved into the dynamics of the linguistic construction of the texts studied. To fill this gap, this paper employs computational techniques to investigate the language of a corpus of novels whose characters are particularly apt for the arousal of negative empathy. More specifically, this study uses Sentiment and Emotion Analysis to explore the lexical representation of emotions and to locate fluctuations in the emotional content of the texts. The ultimate aim is to assess both the potential and the vulnerabilities of Sentiment Analysis for detecting emotional shifts in a literary text and thus for revealing the intensity of its emotional content, which may facilitate the readers’ morally challenging engagement with negative characters.

6. Oktober 2023

“The unlikeliest twins”: the role of intertextual foregrounding and defamiliarisation in creating empathy in Meursault, contre-enquête

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

Seiten: 191-212

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Kamel Daoud’s debut novel Meursault, contre-enquête is a recasting of Camus’ seminal novel, L’Étranger . Daoud creates an overt and deliberate set of intertextual references to Camus’ text by describing the same events from the point of view of the brother of the nameless ‘ Arab ’ murdered by Meursault in L’Étranger. Thus the differences in character and event presentation are defamiliarised and foregrounded. This article argues that such intertextual foregrounding and defamiliarisation has implications for reader identification with the characters and related empathetic responses. Using a corpus-assisted stylistic analysis of the original French texts, the article illustrates these implications by analysing the ways the language of Daoud’s novel may contribute to alternation between readers’ empathy and antipathy towards its characters.

6. Oktober 2023

I fucking love you! Emotional address in Fleabag, or how viewers’ empathy becomes voyeurism

Julie Neveux

Seiten: 213-232

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This paper examines the effects of emotional language and telecinematic direct address in the BBC television series Fleabag (2016–2019) on viewers’ empathetic engagement, showing how multimodal narratives can invite empathy. In this series, direct address, often used to create intimacy with the audience, is the vehicle through which the eponymous protagonist shares or does not share her emotional states with those within or outside the diegesis. This way of communicating her feelings, I argue, shapes and intensifies viewers’ potential empathetic engagement in different ways throughout the series. In particular, I explain that the way in which Fleabag recurrently uses expressive language, most prominently swear words, while addressing the audience, initially invites viewer’s empathy in Season 1, before a stylistic shift in Season 2 eventually redefines this kind of emotional address: at the end of the series, viewers’ empathy is disinvited, positioning them as unwanted voyeurs.

6. Oktober 2023

Connecting with the world: poetic synaesthesia, sensory metaphors and empathy

Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt

Seiten: 233-248

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Many poems rely on sensory lexis and metaphors, making them amenable to the readerly experience of sensory overlap or fusion that characterizes synaesthesia. Such sensory language can be considered a way to connect with our emotions and bodies, since our bodily experiences directly influence and control many of our other experiences. Synaesthetic metaphors can thus be related to empathy via embodiment, especially when empathy is understood as playing a part in the reader’s or the spectator’s sensory engagement with works of art. In this article, I explore how empathy can derive from our sensory experience of a few poems that may allow embodied reading experiences. Analyzing sensory language in poems by Dadaist Hugo Ball, Romantics John Keats and Wilfred Owen, and Modernist H.D., I contend that loading poetry with sensations could be construed as an attempt to bridge the gap(s) between the body and the mind by stimulating readers’ empathic response.

Afterword

6. Oktober 2023

Refreshed hypotheses

Suzanne Keen

Seiten: 249-254

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Journal of Literary Semantics: Special Issue Guidelines
A special issue is a thematic collection of articles, guest-edited by an academic who is not a part of the Journal of Literary Semantics core editorial team. There are two issues of Journal of Literary Semantics per year (April and October) and October can be reserved for a special issue. The special issue typically contains 5-6 articles, plus book reviews.
If you have an idea for a special issue please refer to our guidelines.

Submission
Submissions should be sent directly to the Editor, Marina Lambrou: M.Lambrou@kingston.ac.uk

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Submissions to the journal should be written in clear and concise English
Submitted manuscripts should be no longer than 7,000 words
Submitted manuscripts should be sent as a Word document
Authors whose native language is not English should have their manuscripts read by a native speaker before submission. Submissions should be sent to the Editor: Marina Lambrou
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Examples not in English must have aligned interlinear glosses and an idiomatic translation
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Editor
Marina Lambrou; Department of Humanities, Kingston University; Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE, UK; e-mail: M.Lambrou@kingston.ac.uk

All correspondence concerning editorial matters and submissions should be sent to the Editor.

Founding Editor (1972–2002)
Trevor Eaton, Kent, UK

Editorial Board
Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK
Michael Burke, University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands
Billy Clark, Northumbria University, UK
Anne Furlong, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Marcello Giovanelli, Aston University, UK
Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, P. R. China
Brian McHale, The Ohio State University, US
Rocio Montoro, University of Granada, Spain
Louise Nuttall, University of Huddersfield, UK
Violeta Sotirova, University of Nottingham, UK
Masayuki Teranishi, University of Hyogo, Japan
Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham, UK

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Online ISSN: 1613-3838
Print ISSN: 0341-7638
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 1972
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: linguists, literary scholars