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Sabrina Coco
Lingua e Trasformazione: Elementi di Linguistica Cognitiva nella scrittura di Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada’s texts represent a peculiar phenomenon in contemporary German literature. Her writing is metalinguistic in terms of content, as well as stylistically experimental and innovative, so much so that it has been compared to French Surrealism. In this sense, her texts are not characterized by any technical nor theoretical features, as they are instead an artistic product, and as such fictitious and aesthetically refined. Nevertheless, the view on language and culture expressed in the works of this writer seems to indirectly mirror the theoretical framework of a recent linguistic approach of research: That of Cognitive Linguistics. This approach, focusing on the study of language as a cognitive function, reconsiders the close relationship between language and culture, examines events of inter- and intralinguistic variability, and recognizes the deep connection between the mind and the body. Concepts and assumptions such as conceptual blending and embodiment would appear therefore as the theoretical counterpart of the aesthetically refined considerations about cultural hybridity, linguistic interference, and bodily sensations of the subject when in contact with the other, which constitute key elements of Yoko Tawada’s writings.
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