Abstract Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey was published in 2014 and won the Costa Award for best first novel. Both humorous and sad, it has been categorised as literary fiction, detective fiction and a psychological thriller, and is thus a “hybrid” genre novel that is difficult to categorise neatly. The novel’s chief protagonist and narrator is Maud, who has dementia. As a narrator Maud is extremely unreliable and often forgets facts and events even as they are unfolding around her. Maud’s memories, however, have a much higher degree of specificity than her present day narratives: they are richer, more detailed, and therefore much more reliable, than the narrative of her current life. Consequently, the novel is characterised by a stylistic contrast between the vague and the specific, the remembered and the forgotten. In order to investigate this contrast, this paper argues that a stylistic account of Cognitive Grammar can shed further light on how Maud’s cognitive habits are represented in the novel, and are represented in the novel, and how these in turn impact upon text-world representation. The analysis draws upon Cognitive Grammar’s construal processes, in particular, to explore the fictive illustration of mind style – and of memory – in this literary context. Finally, this paper considers how one of the particular experiences of reading the narrative is dependent on the “layered construal” prevalent in the text, whereby a reader’s experience of the fictional world is continually contrasted with that of the narrator.

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寻找伊丽莎白：在伊丽莎白中建构记忆正在艾玛·希利失踪

艾玛·希利（Emma Healey）的摘要伊丽莎白·思念（Elizabeth Is Missing）于2014年出版，并获得了科斯塔奖最佳首部小说。无论是幽默还是悲伤，它都被归类为文学小说，侦探小说和心理惊悚小说，因此是一部很难被归类的“混合”体裁小说。小说的主要主人公和叙述者是患有痴呆症的莫德。作为叙述者，莫德极度不可靠，即使事实和事件在她身边展开，也常常会忘记。然而，毛德的记忆比她今天的叙述具有更高的特异性：它们比她目前的叙述更丰富，更详尽，因此更可靠。因此，这部小说的特征是模糊与特定，被记住与被遗忘之间的风格对比。为了研究这种对比，本文认为，认知语法的文体学解释可以进一步阐明莫德的认知习惯在小说中的表现形式以及在小说中的表现形式，以及这些习惯又如何影响文本世界的表现形式。 。该分析借鉴了认知语法的建构过程，尤其是在这种文学语境中探索了心态和记忆的虚构插图。最后，本文考虑了阅读叙事的一种特殊体验如何取决于文本中普遍存在的“分层建构”，从而使读者对虚构世界的体验与叙事者的体验不断形成对比。本文认为，认知语法的文体学解释可以进一步阐明莫德的认知习惯在小说中的表现形式以及在小说中的表现形式，以及它们如何反过来影响文本世界的表现形式。该分析借鉴了认知语法的建构过程，尤其是在这种文学语境中探索了心态和记忆的虚构插图。最后，本文考虑了阅读叙事的一种特殊体验如何取决于文本中普遍存在的“分层建构”，从而使读者对虚构世界的体验与叙述者的体验不断形成对比。本文认为，认知语法的文体学解释可以进一步阐明莫德的认知习惯在小说中的表现形式以及在小说中的表现形式，以及它们又如何影响文本世界的表现形式。该分析借鉴了认知语法的建构过程，尤其是在这种文学语境中探索了心态和记忆的虚构插图。最后，本文考虑了阅读叙事的一种特殊体验如何取决于文本中普遍存在的“分层建构”，从而使读者对虚构世界的体验与叙述者的体验不断形成对比。尤其是在这种文学语境中探索关于心态和记忆的虚构插图。最后，本文考虑了阅读叙事的一种特殊体验如何取决于文本中普遍存在的“分层建构”，从而使读者对虚构世界的体验与叙述者的体验不断形成对比。尤其是在这种文学语境中探索关于心态和记忆的虚构插图。最后，本文考虑了阅读叙事的一种特殊体验如何取决于文本中普遍存在的“分层建构”，从而使读者对虚构世界的体验与叙述者的体验不断形成对比。