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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... theory is unanchored , its objects- the acts of language and literature - are permanently anchored in the full human world by being anchored in how the human mind works . I pro- pose a new common ground for the profession of English ...
... theory is unanchored , its objects- the acts of language and literature - are permanently anchored in the full human world by being anchored in how the human mind works . I pro- pose a new common ground for the profession of English ...
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... theory of image - schemas . I am grateful to Gilles Fauconnier , Ronald Langacker , Cathy Harris , Jeff Elman , David McNeill , John Goldsmith , Jim McCawley , Nancy Dray , Peter Dembow- ski , and David Palermo for conversations about ...
... theory of image - schemas . I am grateful to Gilles Fauconnier , Ronald Langacker , Cathy Harris , Jeff Elman , David McNeill , John Goldsmith , Jim McCawley , Nancy Dray , Peter Dembow- ski , and David Palermo for conversations about ...
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... theory - however heady or marvelous in its gists and piths - is ungrounded and fragmented . By con- trast , its objects - language and literature - are deeply grounded . Lan- guage and literature are suffused by the full human world of ...
... theory - however heady or marvelous in its gists and piths - is ungrounded and fragmented . By con- trast , its objects - language and literature - are deeply grounded . Lan- guage and literature are suffused by the full human world of ...
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... theory fails to connect with the full human world to the extent that it treats objects in literature that can be seen only by means of the theory : in that case , if the theory vanishes , its objects vanish.2 The neglect of contemporary ...
... theory fails to connect with the full human world to the extent that it treats objects in literature that can be seen only by means of the theory : in that case , if the theory vanishes , its objects vanish.2 The neglect of contemporary ...
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... theory in all of its forms while one form or another of theory helps to define some of the other fields . The fields typ- ically have no relationship with one another . Theory itself is divided not into fragments of a field , even an ...
... theory in all of its forms while one form or another of theory helps to define some of the other fields . The fields typ- ically have no relationship with one another . Theory itself is divided not into fragments of a field , even an ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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