The Language of Emotion: A Corpus-Based Cognitive-Stylistic Analysis of Grief and Loss in Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows and Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet
Grief is an intensely subjective emotional experience whose abstract nature makes metaphor, embodiment, spatialization, and repetition central to its literary representation. This study investigates the linguistic and cognitive construction of grief and loss in Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows (2022) and Maggie O’Farrell’...