ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author develops Fowler’s notion of mind style in order to contrast it with the notion of ideological point of view, drawing a more delicate distinction than Fowler that allows her to focus on individual rather than social consciousness. She draws on conceptual metaphor and blending theory from cognitive linguistics, and in so doing produces a detailed analysis of the deviant criminal mind in John Fowles’s The Collector. The frequency and elaboration of the metaphorical expressions drawing from the source domain of butterflies suggests that a systematic set of correspondences between the butterfly domain and the miranda domain is part of the Clegg’s conceptual structure. Because the relevant metaphorical expressions do not relate to a conventional pattern in English, the corresponding conceptual mapping is idiosyncratic rather than conventional, and therefore a feature of the Clegg’s mind style.
