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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... mind was discovered . I can think of no equal intel- lectual achievement . The purpose of this book is to propose a reframing of the study of English so that it comes to be seen as inseparable from the discovery of mind , participating ...
... mind was discovered . I can think of no equal intel- lectual achievement . The purpose of this book is to propose a reframing of the study of English so that it comes to be seen as inseparable from the discovery of mind , participating ...
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... mind as inseparable objects of analysis - begins in chapter 1 , the " User's Manual . " Readers who feel by temperament or prior interest attracted to this project but who see nothing at stake in a discussion of the profession of ...
... mind as inseparable objects of analysis - begins in chapter 1 , the " User's Manual . " Readers who feel by temperament or prior interest attracted to this project but who see nothing at stake in a discussion of the profession of ...
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... mind . When embedded in this way , the study of literature is automatically connected to whatever is basic to human beings . The wisdom in giving English departments names like " The Department of English Language and Literature " lay ...
... mind . When embedded in this way , the study of literature is automatically connected to whatever is basic to human beings . The wisdom in giving English departments names like " The Department of English Language and Literature " lay ...
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... mind . If we had such a concept , our grounding activity would be the study of language and of literature as expressions of our conceptual apparatus . We would focus on how the em- bodied human mind uses its ordinary conceptual ...
... mind . If we had such a concept , our grounding activity would be the study of language and of literature as expressions of our conceptual apparatus . We would focus on how the em- bodied human mind uses its ordinary conceptual ...
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... mind . My argument constitutes a cri- tique of the present state of the profession , based upon a vision of what the profession of English could be . I will begin this critique by looking at the profession's past , problems , and ...
... mind . My argument constitutes a cri- tique of the present state of the profession , based upon a vision of what the profession of English could be . I will begin this critique by looking at the profession's past , problems , and ...
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