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The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr.
Gibbs, Jr.
Raymond W., Gibbs, Jr.

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LinguisticsGeneral PsychologyLogic

ISBN10: 0521419654
ISBN13: 9780521419659
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 26 1994
Pages: 540
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.37 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
The traditional view of the mind holds that poetic language is a special human ability requiring different cognitive and linguistic skills than employed in ordinary language. The author 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. The Poetics of Mind evaluates current philosophical, linguistic, and literary theories of figurative language and relates the empirical work on figurative language understanding to the broader issues concerning the nature of everyday thought and reasoning.

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