This article establishes the theoretical bases for a more direct and detailed exploration of fictional minds in cognitive stylistics. This discipline usually analyzes narrative discourse in terms of how readers process language and conceptualize narrative meaning, treating literary language more or less explicitly as a window into readers’ mental experiences. However, it is also possible to treat literary language as a window into characters’ minds, which, in spite of their obvious fictionality, could enhance the potential for cognitive linguistic analysis to inform our understanding of the human mind and consciousness more generally. This article explores the nature of linguistic meaning in different speech and thought presentation techniques primarily through the lens of Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, ultimately prioritizing the representational semantics of Free Indirect Thought. It proposes a more precise understanding of the concept of ‘conceptualizer’ which would validate a type of mind style analysis that is more narrowly focused on illuminating the underlying mental activity of fictional characters instead of readers. It demonstrates this type of focus with a brief analysis of a passage from Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend .

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作为人物概念化的文学意义：重新定位人物话语和自由间接思想的认知文体分析

本文为在认知文体学中对虚构思维进行更直接和详细的探索奠定了理论基础。该学科通常根据读者如何处理语言和概念化叙事意义来分析叙事话语，将文学语言或多或少地明确地视为进入读者心理体验的窗口。但是，也有可能将文学语言视为通向人物思想的窗口，尽管他们具有明显的虚构性，但仍可以增强认知语言分析的潜力，从而更全面地了解我们对人的思想和意识的了解。本文主要通过兰格（Langacker）的认知语法的角度探讨了在不同的言语和思想表达技术中语言意义的本质，最终优先考虑自由间接思想的表征语义。它提出了对“概念化器”概念的更精确的理解，这将验证一种思维方式分析类型，这种分析方式更狭窄地侧重于阐明虚构人物而不是读者的潜在心理活动。它简要分析了查尔斯·杰克逊（Charles Jackson）的《迷失的周末》（The Lost Weekend）中的一段话，以此证明了这种关注。