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RP-A Cognitive Grammar Study of Narrative Structure System in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.pdf

This study applies Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar framework to analyze the narrative structure of John Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Specifically, it uses the Canonical Event Model and the Compositional Path to investigate how the writer constructs the fantasy narrative in his work using perceptually grounded, conceptualized symbolic assemblies. The study addresses a gap in previous research, as these Cognitive Grammar models have not been systematically applied to literary fantasy. The research examines the narrative structure within ten selected scenes from the novel, with the scenes being visually represented using the Compositional Path. The study posits two hypotheses that the chosen novel exhibits distinct and recurrent cognitive patterns in its narrative construction, with the selected scenes being governed by a dominant narrative structure system. The study adopts a qualitative method, selecting data based on the saturation principle. The findings confirm the two initial hypotheses, addressing the questions of the study. The research successfully met its aims by examining the cognitive conceptualization of events in a fantasy narrative. It used a clause-level analysis to show how grammatical choices create both physical and mental actions. It also defined the narrative structure system by identifying recurring grammatical patterns, proving that different types of actions have distinct underlying grammatical systems. Visual schemas were created to represent the cognitive conceptualization evoked by the symbolic grammar. The findings collectively demonstrate that applying cognitive grammar to fantasy literature is not only possible but also a powerful way to deconstruct the foundational conceptual schemas of grammatical structures in imaginative fiction. This validates Langacker’s claim that language is intertwined with human cognition, providing strong evidence that the used grammar is an organized inventory of conventional interconnected linguistic units, regardless of whether the events are real or imaginary.
Keywords: Cognitive Grammar, Canonical Event, Compositional Path, Narrative Structure, Trajector, Landmark, Action Chain