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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... result of this book is to be found not within this book but rather within the reader who has been persuaded to begin that reconsideration . The human mind is linguistic and literary ; language and literature are products of the everyday ...
... result of this book is to be found not within this book but rather within the reader who has been persuaded to begin that reconsideration . The human mind is linguistic and literary ; language and literature are products of the everyday ...
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... result in our profession has been a flood of specific readings of texts . The great age when precritical interest in texts was general for all texts and thus warranted the scholar's efforts was of course the Renaissance , when there was ...
... result in our profession has been a flood of specific readings of texts . The great age when precritical interest in texts was general for all texts and thus warranted the scholar's efforts was of course the Renaissance , when there was ...
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... results . It is the capacities themselves that need explaining . Reading is not giving a reading ; and it is reading , not giving a reading , that I am concerned with . Giving readings is important and could be done better if we ...
... results . It is the capacities themselves that need explaining . Reading is not giving a reading ; and it is reading , not giving a reading , that I am concerned with . Giving readings is important and could be done better if we ...
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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