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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... profession of En- glish . I survey the fragmented , isolated , and inconsequential state of liter- ary studies and explore the causes of their decline to peripheral status . I argue that while contemporary critical theory is unanchored ...
... profession of En- glish . I survey the fragmented , isolated , and inconsequential state of liter- ary studies and explore the causes of their decline to peripheral status . I argue that while contemporary critical theory is unanchored ...
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... profession of English can begin without loss at chap- ter 1. It is a guide to the use of this book as an instrument for revisiting and revising basic concepts so automatic and powerful in our thought as to constitute a kind of floor ...
... profession of English can begin without loss at chap- ter 1. It is a guide to the use of this book as an instrument for revisiting and revising basic concepts so automatic and powerful in our thought as to constitute a kind of floor ...
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... profession and to define its research activity . To be sure , some canon- ized authors are so vital that a research university will profitably include professors whose acquaintance with those works is intimate . It is equally certain ...
... profession and to define its research activity . To be sure , some canon- ized authors are so vital that a research university will profitably include professors whose acquaintance with those works is intimate . It is equally certain ...
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... profession . Belief , with its power to admit the believer to our elite Disney World for literary critics , substitutes for touching home base . The second chord it strikes is not for students so much as for teachers . What is criminal ...
... profession . Belief , with its power to admit the believer to our elite Disney World for literary critics , substitutes for touching home base . The second chord it strikes is not for students so much as for teachers . What is criminal ...
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... profession . Part of the definition of a profession is that practitioners not too far re- moved from each other in time must be able to recognize each other's activities . The differences in a profession that occur over a reasonable ...
... profession . Part of the definition of a profession is that practitioners not too far re- moved from each other in time must be able to recognize each other's activities . The differences in a profession that occur over a reasonable ...
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