The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending And The Mind's Hidden ComplexitiesBasic Books, 6 ago 2008 - 464 pagine In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and all thinking consist of blends of metaphors based on simple bodily experiences. These blends are then themselves blended together into an increasingly rich structure that makes up our mental functioning in modern society. A child's entire development consists of learning and navigating these blends. The Way We Think shows how this blending operates; how it is affected by (and gives rise to) language, identity, and concept of category; and the rules by which we use blends to understand ideas that are new to us. The result is a bold, exciting, and accessible new view of how the mind works. |
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Pagina 18
... activity involved in every aspect of human life. THE IRON LADY AND THE RUST BELT In the early 1990s, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—known as the Iron Lady—had great popularity among certain factions in the United States. It ...
... activity involved in every aspect of human life. THE IRON LADY AND THE RUST BELT In the early 1990s, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—known as the Iron Lady—had great popularity among certain factions in the United States. It ...
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... activity of using the desktop interface is coherent and integrated. It is not hampered by its obvious literal falsities: There is no actual desk, no set of folders, no putting of objects into folders, no shuffling of objects from one ...
... activity of using the desktop interface is coherent and integrated. It is not hampered by its obvious literal falsities: There is no actual desk, no set of folders, no putting of objects into folders, no shuffling of objects from one ...
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... activity is totally novel—it shares very few physical characteristics with moving real folders, and it is novel even for the traditional computer user who has issued commands exclusively from a keyboard rather than from a mouse. Yet the ...
... activity is totally novel—it shares very few physical characteristics with moving real folders, and it is novel even for the traditional computer user who has issued commands exclusively from a keyboard rather than from a mouse. Yet the ...
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... activities of a team dressed in red, a pencil smeared with lipstick, or a pencil used only for recording deficits. Theories of semantics typically prefer to work with examples like “black bird” or “brown cow” since these examples are ...
... activities of a team dressed in red, a pencil smeared with lipstick, or a pencil used only for recording deficits. Theories of semantics typically prefer to work with examples like “black bird” or “brown cow” since these examples are ...
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... activities of the human mind, and we will try to lay out a precise and explicit theoretical framework in which to study its nature. We begin where Koestler left off, with the case of “The Buddhist Monk.” Three THE ELEMENTS OF BLENDING A ...
... activities of the human mind, and we will try to lay out a precise and explicit theoretical framework in which to study its nature. We begin where Koestler left off, with the case of “The Buddhist Monk.” Three THE ELEMENTS OF BLENDING A ...
Sommario
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On the Way to Deeper Matters | 59 |
Cause and Effect | 75 |
Vital Relations and Their Compressions | 89 |
Compressions and Clashes | 113 |
Continuity Behind Diversity | 139 |
Identity and Character | 249 |
Category Metamorphosis | 269 |
Multiple Blends | 279 |
MultipleScope Creativity | 299 |
Constitutive and Governing Principles | 309 |
Form and Meaning | 353 |
The Way We Live | 389 |
Notes | 397 |
HOW CONCEPTUAL BLENDING MAKES HUMAN BEINGS WHAT THEY ARE FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE | 169 |
The Origin of Language | 171 |
Things | 195 |
The Construction of the Unreal | 217 |
References | 407 |
Further Important Work on ConceptualBlending | 417 |
Index | 425 |
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