The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language Hardcover - 1996
by Mark Turner
In simple and traditional English, Turner ranges from the tools of modern linguistics, to the recent work of neuroscientists such as Antoio Damasio and Gerald Edelman, to literary masterpieces by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Proust, as he explains how story and projection--and their powerful combination in parable--are fundamental to everyday thought.
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In The Literary Mind, Turner ranges from the tools of modern linguistics, to the recent work of neuroscientists such as Antonio Damasio and Gerald Edelman, to literary masterpieces by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Proust, as he explains how story and projection - and their powerful combination in parable - are fundamental to everyday thought. In simple and traditional English, he reveals how we use parable to understand space and time, to grasp what it means to be located in space and time, and to conceive of ourselves, other selves, other lives, and other viewpoints. He explains the role of parable in reasoning, in categorizing, and in solving problems. He develops a powerful model of conceptual construction and, in a far-reaching final chapter, extends it to a new conception of the origin of language that contradicts proposals by such thinkers as Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker. Turner argues that story, projection, and parable precede grammar, that language follows from these mental capacities as a consequence. Language, he concludes, is the child of the literary mind.
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- Title The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language
- Author Mark Turner
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
- Date 1996-09-19
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780195104110 / 0195104110
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.38 x 6.32 x 0.73 in (23.83 x 16.05 x 1.85 cm)
- Reading level 1260
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Cognitive science
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95050366
- Dewey Decimal Code 801.92
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- Booklist, 08/01/1996, Page 1875
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