Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text
Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied aspects of Julian’s imagery. The article discusses the connection between percept...
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| description | Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied aspects of Julian’s imagery. The article discusses the connection between perception, action and the grounded nature of cognition, exploring its role in structuring Julian’s text. It uses the conceptions of situated conceptualisation and sociocultural situatedness to embed the work in the visual/material culture of the Middle Ages. It reveals how the mystic construes emotionally intense images, which underpin the abstract language of the text’s final chapters. To conclude, the recent conceptions from cognitive science may expand the analytical toolkit of cognitive-diachronic research in particular, helping illuminate the interplay of language, culture, and cognition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f4318c7d97c048d6a19cdb7d5ce43a1f2025-01-03T14:51:50ZengLodz University PressResearch in Language1731-75332023-12-01211214210.18778/1731-7533.21.1.0221523Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval TextKatarzyna Stadnik0Maria Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied aspects of Julian’s imagery. The article discusses the connection between perception, action and the grounded nature of cognition, exploring its role in structuring Julian’s text. It uses the conceptions of situated conceptualisation and sociocultural situatedness to embed the work in the visual/material culture of the Middle Ages. It reveals how the mystic construes emotionally intense images, which underpin the abstract language of the text’s final chapters. To conclude, the recent conceptions from cognitive science may expand the analytical toolkit of cognitive-diachronic research in particular, helping illuminate the interplay of language, culture, and cognition.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/21532cognitive linguisticsgrounded cognitionjulian of norwichsituated conceptualisationsociocultural situatedness |
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| title | Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text |
| title_full | Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text |
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| title_short | Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text |
| title_sort | julian of norwich s a revelation of love a grounded cognition approach to a late medieval text |
| topic | cognitive linguistics grounded cognition julian of norwich situated conceptualisation sociocultural situatedness |
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