Fauconnier, Gilles
Mappings in Thought and Language
- ISBN 13:
- 9780521599535
- author:
- Fauconnier, Gilles
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1997
- Pages:
- 219
- Genre:
- Cognition & cognitive psychology
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Mappings in Thought and Language explores how meaning is constructed in everyday thought and language. At its core, this 1997 book examines the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior, revealing the complex mappings that link mental spaces.
The research reveals that the same principles underlying scientific, artistic, and literary thought also operate at lower levels of understanding and sentence meaning. The analysis is based on a rich array of data from ordinary language, humor, action, design, science, and narratives.
Key cognitive operations examined include analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction, and recursion. These findings shed light on phenomena such as counterfactuals, time, tense, and mood, opacity, metaphor, fictive motion, grammatical constructions, and quantification over cognitive domains.
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