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Metaphor Wars

Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

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Metaphor Wars

Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for their special talents in both thinking about certain ideas in new ways, and communicating these thoughts in vivid, poetic forms. Yet metaphors may not only be special communicative devices, but a fundamental part of everyday cognition in the form of 'conceptual metaphors'. An enormous body of empirical evidence from cognitive linguistics and related disciplines has emerged detailing how conceptual metaphors underlie significant aspects of language, thought, cultural and expressive action. Despite its influence and popularity, there have been major criticisms of conceptual metaphor. This book offers an evaluation of the arguments and empirical evidence for and against conceptual metaphors, much of which scholars on both sides of the wars fail to properly acknowledge.

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1108107621

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Embodiment and Cognitive Science

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

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Embodiment and Cognitive Science

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

This 2006 book explores how people's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action provide part of the fundamental grounding for human cognition and language. Cognition is what occurs when the body engages the physical and cultural world and must be studied in terms of the dynamical interactions between people and the environment. Human language and thought emerge from recurring patterns of embodied activity that constrain ongoing intelligent behavior. We must not assume cognition to be purely internal, symbolic, computational, and disembodied, but seek out the gross and detailed ways that language and thought are inextricably shaped by embodied action. Embodiment and Cognitive Science describes the abundance of empirical evidence from many disciplines, including work on perception, concepts, imagery and reasoning, language and communication, cognitive development, and emotions and consciousness, that support the idea that the mind is embodied.

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Metaphor Wars

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Interpreting Figurative Meaning

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr,Herbert L. Colston

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Interpreting Figurative Meaning

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr,Herbert L. Colston

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of speech. Gibbs and Colston argue that there may not be a single theory or model that adequately explains both the processes and products of figurative meaning experience. Experimental research may ultimately be unable to simply adjudicate between current models in psychology, linguistics and philosophy of how figurative meaning is interpreted. Alternatively, the authors advance a broad theoretical framework, motivated by ideas from 'dynamical systems theory', that describes the multiple, interacting influences which shape people's experiences of figurative meaning in discourse. This book details past research and theory, offers a critical assessment of this work and sets the stage for a new vision of figurative experience in human life.

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1107380073

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Figurative Language and Thought

By: Albert N. Katz Professor of Psychology University of Western Ontario,Cristina Cacciari Professor of Psychology University of Bologna,Santa Cruz Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. Professor of Psychology University of California,College Park Mark Turner Jr. Professor of English Language and Literature University of Maryland

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Figurative Language and Thought

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of figurative language, Albert Katz, Mark Turner, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., and Cristina Cacciari, provide a coherent and focused debate on the subject. The book's authors discuss a variety of fundamental questions, including: What can figures of speech tell us about the structure of the conceptual system? If and how should we distinguish the literal from the nonliteral in our theories of language and thought? Are we primarily figurative thinkers and consequently figurative language users or the other way around? Why do we prefer to speak metaphorically in everyday conversation, when literal options may be available for use? Is metaphor the only vehicle through which we can understand abstract concepts? What role do cultural and social factors play in our comprehension of figurative language? These and related questions are raised and argued in an integrative look at the role of nonliteral language in cognition. This volume, a part of Counterpoints series, will be thought-provoking reading for a wide range of cognitive psychologists, linguists, and philosophers.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195355148

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Figurative Language and Thought

By: Albert N. Katz,Cristina Cacciari,Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.,Mark Turner

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By: Albert N. Katz,Cristina Cacciari,Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.,Mark Turner

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Embodiment and Cognitive Science

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

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Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

By: Raymond W. Gibbs

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Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

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This volume examines the role that authorship plays in people's experience of language and art as meaningful human artifacts.

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Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

By: Raymond W. Gibbs

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Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

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Does our understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays demand that we know exactly who Shakespeare really was and what he intended to communicate in his work? This volume examines the role that authorship plays in people's experience of language and art as meaningful human artifacts, as well as reviewing the fierce debates over these issues both within academia and popular culture. It is argued that many aspects of our understanding of language (both oral and written) and artworks (paintings, music, theater, etc.) rests on people's fundamental, often unconscious, bias to seek who created something and for what communicative purpose.

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661041856X

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The Poetics of Mind

Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

By: Raymond W. Gibbs

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The Poetics of Mind

Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

By: Raymond W. Gibbs

In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.

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Interpreting Figurative Meaning

By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr,Herbert L. Colston

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By: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr,Herbert L. Colston

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Metaphor Wars

Metaphor Wars

Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Metaphor Wars

Metaphor Wars

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

Figurative Language and Thought

Figurative Language and Thought

Figurative Language and Thought

Figurative Language and Thought

Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

The Poetics of Mind

The Poetics of Mind

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

Figurative Language and Thought

Figurative Language and Thought

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