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Mappings in Thought and Language
Gilles Fauconnier
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Description for Mappings in Thought and Language
Paperback. This 1997 book reveals the cognitive creativity that underlies our use of language in everyday life. Num Pages: 220 pages, 85 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 316.
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 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich ... Read more
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 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521599535
SKU
V9780521599535
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