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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... patterns of thought and their automatic and unconscious disclosure in the shape of everyday language . Nor am I encouraging the study of language as conceived by the most prominent schools in modern linguistics . I propose for the ...
... patterns of thought and their automatic and unconscious disclosure in the shape of everyday language . Nor am I encouraging the study of language as conceived by the most prominent schools in modern linguistics . I propose for the ...
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... patterns in fixed and novel expression.17 Gilles Fauconnier has produced an elegant theory of the ways in which language prompts us to construct mental spaces and correspondences be- tween mental spaces , a theory that seems to offer ...
... patterns in fixed and novel expression.17 Gilles Fauconnier has produced an elegant theory of the ways in which language prompts us to construct mental spaces and correspondences be- tween mental spaces , a theory that seems to offer ...
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... patterns and conventional language . An attempt to reintegrate the study of language and literature as grounded in human cognition is , I suggest , the most likely path to restoring our profession to its natural place as a central cul ...
... patterns and conventional language . An attempt to reintegrate the study of language and literature as grounded in human cognition is , I suggest , the most likely path to restoring our profession to its natural place as a central cul ...
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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 |
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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