Making sense of reality through fiction : approaching memes through the intersecting lenses of cognitive linguistics and narratology

In this thesis project, I develop a new approach to examine how and why people use fictive narratives to cope with traumatic events. While this area of research has primarily been studied through the lenses of cognitive narratology and psychology, I adapt a cognitive linguistic methodology, centered...

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Main Author: Colautti, Jesse Thomas
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62751