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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... understand those capaci- ties cuts it off from the full human world , making it a special world , sim- pler than the human world , smaller and marginal , exhilarating as a magic kingdom contained within its own walls , often viewed ...
... understand those capaci- ties cuts it off from the full human world , making it a special world , sim- pler than the human world , smaller and marginal , exhilarating as a magic kingdom contained within its own walls , often viewed ...
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... understand our human possibilities . This sort of analysis would mediate between what might be called common understanding and special understanding . By " common under- standing " I mean to indicate the linguistic skills and conceptual ...
... understand our human possibilities . This sort of analysis would mediate between what might be called common understanding and special understanding . By " common under- standing " I mean to indicate the linguistic skills and conceptual ...
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... understanding of the sonnet that is superior to our analytical understanding of language , superior to our understanding of structures - such as everyday metaphors - that live in both language and literature . We know a great deal about ...
... understanding of the sonnet that is superior to our analytical understanding of language , superior to our understanding of structures - such as everyday metaphors - that live in both language and literature . We know a great deal about ...
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... understand it ? Given alternative readings , what were the different processes that led to those alternative understandings ? The most amazing phenomenon our profession confronts , and the one for which we have the least explana- tion ...
... understand it ? Given alternative readings , what were the different processes that led to those alternative understandings ? The most amazing phenomenon our profession confronts , and the one for which we have the least explana- tion ...
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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