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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... tion . " That chapter and the book as a whole owe an obvious debt to Mark Johnson's work on the theory of image - schemas . I am grateful to Gilles Fauconnier , Ronald Langacker , Cathy Harris , Jeff Elman , David McNeill , John ...
... tion . " That chapter and the book as a whole owe an obvious debt to Mark Johnson's work on the theory of image - schemas . I am grateful to Gilles Fauconnier , Ronald Langacker , Cathy Harris , Jeff Elman , David McNeill , John ...
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... tion , is that a reader can make sense of a text , and that there are certain regularities across the individual senses made of a given text . How do readers do that ? That is a question that leads us to touch home base . True , these ...
... tion , is that a reader can make sense of a text , and that there are certain regularities across the individual senses made of a given text . How do readers do that ? That is a question that leads us to touch home base . True , these ...
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... tion in thought and speech ; and with grammar as symbolic phenomenon . Much of the empirical research in cognitive linguistics has led to a rejec- tion of those dichotomies that have in practice separated the study of lan- guage from ...
... tion in thought and speech ; and with grammar as symbolic phenomenon . Much of the empirical research in cognitive linguistics has led to a rejec- tion of those dichotomies that have in practice separated the study of lan- guage from ...
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... tion , and with a willingness to see these first forays laid aside in a future time when the state of our knowledge is better . Perhaps these probes can only be addressed to those who have some sympathy with the perspective of this ...
... tion , and with a willingness to see these first forays laid aside in a future time when the state of our knowledge is better . Perhaps these probes can only be addressed to those who have some sympathy with the perspective of this ...
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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