This article therefore focuses on the linguistic features that serve to represent his inebriated state of mind. The character in question is the protagonist in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, an alcoholic who is largely characterised by his drunken behaviour and ideation. In the tradition of mind style analysis, it aims to use linguistics to reveal some of the underlying cognitive processes and proclivities at work in the character’s psychology. This article applies Cognitive Grammar to the analysis of a character’s mind that is represented with Free Indirect Style. Cognitive Grammar analyses the semantics of linguistic features in relation to human cognition Free Indirect Style allows authors to represent their characters’ cognition with language.
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