Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This book reveals the creativity that underlies our effortless use of language in everyday life, when we engage in conversation, understand humor, or solve puzzles. The capacities and principles that we develop from infancy for ordinary thinking and talking are also the ones that drive scientific and artistic thought, high-level reasoning, and conceptual change. Researchers and graduate students in linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language will find this text to be a fascinating addition to their collections.
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Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This book reveals the creativity that underlies our effortless use of language in everyday life, when we engage in conversation, understand humor, or solve puzzles. The capacities and principles that we develop from infancy for ordinary thinking and talking are also the ones which drive scientific and artistic thought, high-level reasoning, and conceptual change.
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This book explores a simple idea: that mappings between domains are at the heart of the unique human cognitive faculty of producing, transferring, and processing meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
counterfactual space, induced schema, space builder, fictive motion, blended space, presupposition projection, conceptual blending, tea importer, generic space, epistemic distance, selective projection, partial projection, access principle, foundation space, analogical mapping, emergent structure, focus space, metaphorical mappings, belief space, cognitive construction, structure projection, discourse management, base space, source domain, mental spaces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book explores a simple idea: that mappings between domains are at the heart of the unique human cognitive faculty of producing, transferring, and processing meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
counterfactual space, induced schema, space builder, fictive motion, blended space, presupposition projection, conceptual blending, tea importer, generic space, epistemic distance, selective projection, partial projection, access principle, foundation space, analogical mapping, emergent structure, focus space, metaphorical mappings, belief space, cognitive construction, structure projection, discourse management, base space, source domain, mental spaces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Time Path, Hulk Hogan, New York, Great America, James Bond, Sean Connery, Speech Domain, George Bush, Modus Ponens, Northern Light, Van Hoek, Blend Figure, Blended Space Figure, San Francisco New!
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- Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series) by Gilles Fauconnier on 8 pages
- Metaphor and Thought by Andrew Ortony in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Act of Creation (Arkana) by Arthur Koestler on page 151, and Back Matter
- On Metaphor (A Critical Inquiry Book) by Sheldon Sacks in Back Matter
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman in Back Matter
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- Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 20.) by Rene Dirven on 4 pages
- Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music) by Lawrence M. Zbikowski on 4 pages
- Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Rene Dirven on 4 pages
- The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language by Mark Turner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Grounding: The Epistemic of Deixis and Reference (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Frank Brisard on page 23, page 79, and page 295
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