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3. The conceptual ecology of ethos3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The cognitive dynamics of impression formation; 3.3 From dialect to style; 3.4 From style to cognition; 3.5 Performance models; 3.6 Character schemata; 3.7 Reading political minds; 3.8 Summary; 4. Logos as representation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Common ground and the enthymeme; 4.3 (Mind) modelling and the Idealised Common Ground; 4.4 A (Cognitive) Grammar of Resistance; 4.5 Re-specifying and resistant reading; 4.6 Re-scoping and resistant reading; 4.7 Re-profiling, re-scanning and resistant reading; 4.8 Irony as resistance; 4.9 Summary

AbstractThis article approaches fictionality as a set of semiotic strategies prototypically associated with fictional forms of storytelling (Hatavara & Mildorf, 2017b). Whilst these strategies are strongly associated with fiction, they might also be used in non-fictional and ontologically ambivalent contexts to create 'cross-fictional' rhetorical effects. We focus on the representation of thought and consciousness. Using the concept of 'mind style' (Fowler, 1977,1996;Leech & Short, 1981;Semino, 2007), we investigate the linguistic representation of the internal monologue of British Prime Minister, Theresa May, in a satirical newspaper article. The stylistic analysis of the PM's mind style facilitates an account of the elaborate and nuanced mixing of May and the author's ideological perspectives throughout the piece. We argue that this cross-fictional, stylistic approach better accounts for the satirical effects of fictionality in the text than those placing a premium on authorial intention and the invented nature of the narrative discourse.