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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... exists for us independently of any academic the- ory . Whether the academic theory is invented or not , whether it attains an ascendency or vanishes , the full human world , its Pretext PRETEXT: Professing English in the Age of ...
... exists for us independently of any academic the- ory . Whether the academic theory is invented or not , whether it attains an ascendency or vanishes , the full human world , its Pretext PRETEXT: Professing English in the Age of ...
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... exist- ing disciplines with criticism , but did not want to change the prevailing definition of knowledge or the goals of the profession as a whole . He sought to promote criticism to legitimate status within the profession by giving it ...
... exist- ing disciplines with criticism , but did not want to change the prevailing definition of knowledge or the goals of the profession as a whole . He sought to promote criticism to legitimate status within the profession by giving it ...
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... exist and to have meaning because language and the conventional thought of linguistic communities already exist . What a reader brings to a text is predominantly what a member of the linguistic community brings to the language in which ...
... exist and to have meaning because language and the conventional thought of linguistic communities already exist . What a reader brings to a text is predominantly what a member of the linguistic community brings to the language in which ...
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... exists as an exploitation of a dominant , active , unoriginal , and largely unconscious matrix of conventional ... exist in everyday thought but are indis- pensable and irreducible there . Reason and poetic thought are not mutu ...
... exists as an exploitation of a dominant , active , unoriginal , and largely unconscious matrix of conventional ... exist in everyday thought but are indis- pensable and irreducible there . Reason and poetic thought are not mutu ...
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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 |
Other editions - View all
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