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Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language

By Gilles Fauconnier

Book information

ISBN
0521449499, 9780521449496
LCC
P325 .F37 1994
Open Library ID
OL1083333M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5114284 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
238\238
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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