This chapter focuses on a Cognitive Linguistic corpus analysis of Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their sever-al Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historical-ly, Opened and Cut Up". It proposes an analysis of the sensory domain of SEEING/CHROMATIC word concepts in his description of melancholy. As introduced in the parallel chapter on the influence of the contemporary medico-cultural debate on Burton's understanding of this physical and emotional state, we know that Burton produced the most thorough treatise of melancholy in 17th century England (see introduction and Chapter). The objective is to specify how Burton makes use of Seeing terms by analysing the concordances and collocations throughout the corpus. I check which Seeing sensations are more frequently associated with melancholy, and the frequency of these VISION domain words in the text, and what they collocate with. It is further relevant to analyse how they are distributed among the different sections of Burton's treatise.
"Active in sight, the eye sees the colour": A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of SEEING in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
Jodi L. Sandford
2017
Abstract
This chapter focuses on a Cognitive Linguistic corpus analysis of Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their sever-al Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historical-ly, Opened and Cut Up". It proposes an analysis of the sensory domain of SEEING/CHROMATIC word concepts in his description of melancholy. As introduced in the parallel chapter on the influence of the contemporary medico-cultural debate on Burton's understanding of this physical and emotional state, we know that Burton produced the most thorough treatise of melancholy in 17th century England (see introduction and Chapter). The objective is to specify how Burton makes use of Seeing terms by analysing the concordances and collocations throughout the corpus. I check which Seeing sensations are more frequently associated with melancholy, and the frequency of these VISION domain words in the text, and what they collocate with. It is further relevant to analyse how they are distributed among the different sections of Burton's treatise.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
