Reading Minds : : The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science / / Mark Turner.

The 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1991
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
PREFACE --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
PRETEXT. PROFESSING ENGLISH IN THE AGE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE --
CHAPTER 1. USER'S MANUAL --
CHAPTER 2. FLOOR PLAN --
CHAPTER 3. POETRY AND INVENTION --
CHAPTER 4. THE BODY OF OUR THOUGHT (AND THE THOUGHT OF OUR BODY) --
CHAPTER 5. THE POETRY OF ARGUMENT --
CHAPTER 6. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTIONS --
CHAPTER 7. THE POETRY OF CONNECTIONS, I --
CHAPTER 8. THE POETRY OF CONNECTIONS, II --
CHAPTER 9. THE POETRY OF CONNECTIONS, III --
CHAPTER 10. CULTURAL LITERACY AND POETIC THOUGHT --
CHAPTER 11. ENVOI: COGNITIVE RHETORIC AND LITERARY CRITICISM --
APPENDIX --
NOTES --
INDEX
Summary:The 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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780691227788
9783110442496
9783110784237
DOI:10.1515/9780691227788?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Mark Turner.