First published in 1985 (MIT Press), Fauconnier's influential book, Mental Spaces, was instrumental in shaping the new field of cognitive linguistics. The concept of mental spaces--that we develop constructs during discourse that are distinct from linguistic constructs but are established by linguistic expressions--provides a powerful new approach to problems in philosophy and cognitive science concerning thought and language. It includes a new preface that provides context for the theory, and a new foreword by George Lakoff and Eve Sweetser (both of U.C. Berkeley).
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"This book is both interesting and provocative. Fauconnier introduces the appealing idea that much of our talk serves to construct what he calls mental spaces--cognitive structures that include elements corresponding to individuals, their properties, and their relations." Language
"...Mental Spaces describes a theory of human knowledge representation and linguistic processing that provides a simple and uniform account of a wide variety of problems that have long perplexed both linguists and philosophers of language." John Dinsmore, Cognitive Science
"...Mental Spaces describes a theory of human knowledge representation and linguistic processing that provides a simple and uniform account of a wide variety of problems that have long perplexed both linguists and philosophers of language." John Dinsmore, Cognitive Science
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- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Meaning and Use (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) by A. Margalit in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series) by Gilles Fauconnier in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Readings in English Transformational Grammar by Roderick A. Jacobs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language by John R. Searle in Back Matter
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- Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series) by Gilles Fauconnier on 11 pages
- Grounding: The Epistemic of Deixis and Reference (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Frank Brisard on 6 pages
- Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 20.) by Rene Dirven on page 274, and page 552
- Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (Garland Medieval Casebooks) by Jan S. Emerson on page 314, and Back Matter
- The Cognitive Semiotics of Film by Warren Buckland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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