A Cognitive Approach to Surveying Child Literary Texts

One of the interdeciplenaries that applies cognitive linguistics is cognitive poetics. Cognitive poetics deals with the relationship between mind and literary texts. In this approach، literature is not separate from language، and understanding literature is based on our knowledge from the real world. Cognitive approach to literature studies how literary mind understands events. Present research tries to explain parabolic projection through the concept of literary and parabolic mind theory of Turner (1996) and to answer how our mind and literary texts are being related. Emphasizing on the relationship between mind and language، cognitive linguistics approach confirms that the best exemplar for cognitive analysis comes from early stages of language development. This analysis provides important evidences for cognitive poetics. Therefore in this research we selected and analyzed two child stories. Data analysis on schema projection shows that representation of these schemata in Persian child stories are below the anticipated level. But with regard to semantic fields، the research results confirm the hypotheses presented.