While early discussions of mind style has focused primarily on the identification of a text's linguistic and transitivity patterns, there has been increased attention to the study of cognitive aspects within individual texts, specifically cognitive theory of metaphor which deals exclusively with conceptualization of the textual world. Initially developed by Lakoff, Johnson, and Turner, the cognitive approach to metaphor primarily focuses on metaphor as a linguistic and cognitive tool to account systematically for perceiving abstract and unfamiliar concepts in terms of more concrete experiences. Furthermore, cognitive metaphor theorists maintain that the notion of mind style accounts for more personal and cognitive aspects of world views, especially those which involve deviant features of linguistic patterns such as Benjy in The Sound and the Fury (1929). Foregrounding of linguistic features suggests some cognitive deficiency which depends on individual experience, and it is salient in the character peculiar conceptualization of his surrounding world. The acme of cognitive stylistic approach in discussing the notion of mind style concerns the use of cognitive function of metaphor which empirically accounts for the systematic study of a particular world view within individual texts. First section of Faulkner's acclaimed novel The Sound and the Fury, narrated by Benjamin Compson, has been widely discussed in terms of its linguistic and cognitive aspects; however, a detailed analysis of the language of Benjy demonstrates how metaphorical patterns create his idiosyncratic mind style.

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