Schema Theory and Reader Response in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea: A Cognitive Stylistics Analysis

Cognitive Stylistics is an aspect of literary theory and psychology, concerned with how linguistic choices in literary and non- literary texts evoke and reflect cognitive processes in the reader. This paper is a cognitive stylistics analysis of Earnest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952), with a particular focus on schema theory and reader- response theory. Based on theoretical…