Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Simon’s “The Sound of Silence”

  • Muhammad Ajmal , Dr. Iram Rubab , Mr. Bilal Khan, Dr. Tribhuwan Kumar , Dr. Venkanna Nukapangu5

Abstract

The study is concerned with the explanation of cognitive stylistic in the Simon’s “The sound of silence” in order to show the consequences of different cognitive stylistic devices and use of mental processes on the understanding of meaning. These mental spaces can help establish grammar that shows the poet's view. They are connected and used not only in creation perspective understanding but also used to represent dynamic plot in the perception and language. The study explain that cognitive stylistics is used as a tool to supply a systematic and scientific advance towards text authors and readers understanding of the world and show how these interpretations are throw back in discourse concern. It tries to explain the style the mental processes are involved in the construction of meaning. One challenge for cognitive stylistics researchers in contemporary stylistics is to describe how readers interpret literary texts by showing the difference and assist it between their own world and the author's world.

Published
2020-07-01
Section
Articles