Clipped wings and the great abyss: Cognitive stylistics and implicatures in Abiezer Coppe’s ‘prophetic’ recantation
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2017
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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In this article, two major paradigms within cognitive stylistics, the Conceptual Metaphor Theory
(CMT) and the Conceptual Integration Theory (CIT), are applied as largely complementary
approaches to discuss the scope and implicatures of the central metaphorical image of Copp’s Return
to the wayes of Truth (1651), a text written by one of the most famous radical preachers of the Civil
War period as a plea to be released from prison. The article will focus on how the linguistic and cultural
contexts of Coppe’s prophetic writing, in their interaction with the dynamic conceptual relationships
of a conceptual integration network, open up new possibilities of perspectivizing and insinuating
radically different meanings and implicatures: the use of blends in Coppe’s text has a direct effect on
the structure of the analogies that can be made between mental spaces, thereby triggering new meaning
effects, supplementary symbolizing patterns, and unpredictable perlocutionary effects.
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conceptual metaphor, blending, implicature, seventeenth-century religious radicalism, Abiezer Coppe
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 52.1(2017), pp. 53-71
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0081-6272