Abstract Deploying a cognitive grammar perspective, this paper reads Gustav Hasford’s war narrative, The Short-Timers, as displaying the way attentional windowing is reflected in the language. We have taken the methodological decision of becoming cognitively sensitized to the linguistic texture of traumatically loaded episodes, with the aim of looking at the specific linguistic choices that the producer of literary language has made, and the role played by such linguistic choices in cueing the reader’s attention toward these event frames. Specifically, we demonstrate that confluence of windowing and nesting of attention with theories of conceptual metaphor, schema, and force dynamics can yield a fuller cognitive grammatical account of the foregrounded event frames. It is observed that allocation of salience to such event frames is greatly dependent on phraseology that has a high density of metaphoric constructions.

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文本属性和注意窗口：古斯塔夫·哈斯福德（Gustav Hasford）的《短计时器》的认知语法解释

摘要本文从认知语法的角度出发，阅读了古斯塔夫·哈斯福德（Gustav Hasford）的战争叙事《短计时器》（Short-Timers），该书展示了注意力窗口在语言中的体现方式。我们已采取方法上的决策，使其变得对受创伤的情节的语言结构更加敏感，以期了解文学语言产生者做出的特定语言选择，以及这些语言选择在提示读者的语言中所起的作用。注意这些事件框架。具体来说，我们证明了关注的窗口化和嵌套与概念隐喻，模式和力动力学理论的融合可以产生对前景事件框架的更全面的认知语法解释。