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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... unconscious use , and the sources of our resistance to their loss . In " Floor Plan , " I examine partic- ular basic concepts that we must change if we are to reconstitute the profession along the lines I propose . I consider concepts ...
... unconscious use , and the sources of our resistance to their loss . In " Floor Plan , " I examine partic- ular basic concepts that we must change if we are to reconstitute the profession along the lines I propose . I consider concepts ...
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... unconsciously . Its workings are instinctively taken to be obvious . There is a tandem assumption that special language expressing special thought stands apart from the common and is to be analyzed on its own . These two tacit ...
... unconsciously . Its workings are instinctively taken to be obvious . There is a tandem assumption that special language expressing special thought stands apart from the common and is to be analyzed on its own . These two tacit ...
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... 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 ground of the profession of English neither ...
... 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 ground of the profession of English neither ...
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... unconscious understanding , and we typically skip over the analysis of that space . We typically ignore the un- conscious cognitive component of understanding that informs everyday language , exactly because it is unconscious and ...
... unconscious understanding , and we typically skip over the analysis of that space . We typically ignore the un- conscious cognitive component of understanding that informs everyday language , exactly because it is unconscious and ...
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... unconscious matrix of conventional conceptual thought . Originality , far from being autonomous , is contingent at every point upon the unoriginal structures that inform it . I offer an approach that focuses on the complex structure of ...
... unconscious matrix of conventional conceptual thought . Originality , far from being autonomous , is contingent at every point upon the unoriginal structures that inform it . I offer an approach that focuses on the complex structure of ...
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