Challenges and Strategies for Analysing the Translation of Fear in Horror Fiction

Landais, Clotilde

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“…They investigated whether King pays attention to cognitive abilities of his characters through analyzing their use of spatial language first as children and then when they meet again as adults and how meeting the entity IT had a say in their cognitive perception of space. Landais (2016), on the other hand, investigated the problems of translating fear in modern horror fiction into French. Landais analyzed the translation of excerpts from short stories and novels by modern horror writers such as Stephen King and James Cooper.…”

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Construing Horrific Uncertainty: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Stephen King’s The Shining

El-Sayed

2023

Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation

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This paper aims to provide a text-based cognitive stylistic account of how lexical choices made by authors construe uncertainty; a prerequisite of the horror genre plot and the driving force behind its advancement (Carroll, 1990). Stephen King's The Shining (1977) recounts the story of how Jack Torrance, a wannabe-writer and a recovering alcoholic, slowly descends into madness as he develops an urge to kill his son and wife when the family moves to the Overlook, a remote haunted hotel, to be its caretakers during the off season.Through adopting Langacker (2008)'s Cognitive Grammar as the prime tool of analysis, this paper pays particular attention to how the construal operation of selection is exploited by the author to cause a semantic conflict and heighten the sense of uncertainty in the readers until they arrive to it at the end and reconcile the conflict they have been subject to along with the novel's denouement.

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Construing Horrific Uncertainty: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Stephen King’s The Shining

El-Sayed

2023

Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation

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“…They investigate whether King pays attention to cognitive abilities of his characters through analyzing their use of spatial language first as children and then when they meet again as adults and how meeting the entity IT had a say in their cognitive perception of space. Landais (2016), on the other hand, investigates the problems of translating fear in modern horror fiction into French. Landais analyzes the translation of excerpts from short stories and novels by modern horror writers such as Stephen King and James Cooper.…”

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Language Performativity and Horror Fiction: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

El-Sayed

2021

IJLLS

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This paper argues that horror fiction creates its effect through exploiting the workings of language in the minds of readers. As a genre that crosses many art forms, it might be tempting to analyze the multimodal vehicles of horror; the visual effects, the jump scares and the ominous music. However, studying the ability of language, on its own and without any audio-visual effects, to instill horror in its readers becomes even more enticing. The idea that words have the power to disrupt the reality of its readers is deeply rooted in the view of language as performative. The paper further argues that horror writers have manipulate linguistic structures in a peculiar way to serve the purpose of frightening their readers. To this end, an eclectic text-based cognitive stylistic approach is employed to analyze an excerpt from William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971), demonstrating how the process of horror creation is both a textual and a cognitive one, whereby the mental image of reality in the minds of readers is manipulated and distorted by means of linguistic structures, hence horrifying them. Results reveal that for horror to be achieved, layers of blending take place in readers minds in order to arrive to horrific meanings textually described. Additionally, manipulation of syntactic complexity and the morphology of verbs intensifies the horrific effect.

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Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor

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2019

Studies in Global Science Fiction

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Challenges and Strategies for Analysing the Translation of Fear in Horror Fiction

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Construing Horrific Uncertainty: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Stephen King’s The Shining

Construing Horrific Uncertainty: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Stephen King’s The Shining

Language Performativity and Horror Fiction: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor

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