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The Poetics of Mind - Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding (Hardcover)
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The Poetics of Mind - Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding (Hardcover)
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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. The
traditional view of the mind holds that thought and language are
inherently literal and that poetic language is a special human
ability requiring different cognitive and linguistic skills than
employed in ordinary language. This view has imposed serious
limitations on the scholarly study of mental life and on everyday
folk conceptions of human experience. Poetics of Mind overturns the
traditional perspective by showing how figurative aspects of
language reveal the poetic structure of mind. Ideas and research
from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and
literary theory are used to establish important links between the
poetic structure of thought and everyday use of language.
Particular use is made of the extensive research that has
accumulated in experimental psycholinguistics and cognitive
linguistics over the past 15 years. Poetics of Mind evaluates
current philosophical, linguistic, and literary theories of
figurative language, using tools provided by psycholinguistic and
cognitive psychology research. It relates the empirical work on
figurative language understanding to broader issues concerning the
nature of everyday thought and reasoning. As such, it will be of
crucial interest to students and researchers in psychology,
cognitive science, and linguistics.
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