Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive ScienceThe great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in that adventure. |
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... nature of these concepts , their ubiquitous unconscious use , and the sources of our resistance to their loss . In " Floor Plan , " I examine partic- ular basic concepts that we must change if we are to reconstitute the profession along ...
... nature of these concepts , their ubiquitous unconscious use , and the sources of our resistance to their loss . In " Floor Plan , " I examine partic- ular basic concepts that we must change if we are to reconstitute the profession along ...
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... natural sciences . It generates ever more subtle and masterful readings of ever more texts for an ever more specialized group of readers . Fuel is found not only in writing - new writing , old writing , texts resurrected from pit graves ...
... natural sciences . It generates ever more subtle and masterful readings of ever more texts for an ever more specialized group of readers . Fuel is found not only in writing - new writing , old writing , texts resurrected from pit graves ...
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... natural scientists , as advo- cates of useful knowledge , against humanists ; partisans of the moderns against admirers of the ancients ; and rhetoricians and scholars against phi- losophers . Resolution of these oppositions , however ...
... natural scientists , as advo- cates of useful knowledge , against humanists ; partisans of the moderns against admirers of the ancients ; and rhetoricians and scholars against phi- losophers . Resolution of these oppositions , however ...
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... natural linguistic community ; by " special un- derstanding " I mean to indicate those linguistic skills and conceptual structures shared by special language communities such as novelists , dramatists , poets , and their most ...
... natural linguistic community ; by " special un- derstanding " I mean to indicate those linguistic skills and conceptual structures shared by special language communities such as novelists , dramatists , poets , and their most ...
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... natural language rather than a system analogous to language , such as the " language " of painting or the " language " of music . What I mean by the study of language is not the vigilant ... nature and processes of this PROFESSING ENGLISH 17.
... natural language rather than a system analogous to language , such as the " language " of painting or the " language " of music . What I mean by the study of language is not the vigilant ... nature and processes of this PROFESSING ENGLISH 17.
Contents
Users Manual | 25 |
Floor Plan | 30 |
Poetry and Invention | 51 |
The Body of Our Thought and the Thought of Our Body | 68 |
The Poetry of Argument | 99 |
Conceptual Connections | 121 |
The Poetry of Connections I | 151 |
The Poetry of Connections II | 183 |
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Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science Mark Turner Limited preview - 2021 |
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science Mark Turner Limited preview - 1994 |
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science Mark Turner No preview available - 1991 |
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activity analogy aspect attributes automatic basic level basic metaphor behavior bilateral symmetry body brain category structures causal CHAIN METAPHOR classical cognitive linguistics cognitive rhetoric common commonplace transformation concept of argument conceptual apparatus conceptual connection conceptual metaphor consciousness consider constraint contrary conventional cue validity cultural literacy culturally literate person default concept Dieter dynamic entrenched equation Eve Sweetser EVENTS ARE ACTIONS everyday example expression floor plan force generic-level information generic-level metaphor George Lakoff Grim Reaper ground Harvard Yard Hirsch human person image-schema image-schematic structure imagine invention journey knowledge linguistic literary criticism mapping Mark Johnson Mark Turner meaning mental model meta metaphoric projection metaphoric understanding motion Nature path phor phoric phrase physical poem poetry profession of English projection of symmetry reading recognize relations Ronald Langacker schema semantic sense source domain spatial specific-level stasis target domain theory things tion unconscious unoriginal violate xyz metaphor