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. |
Dall'interno del libro
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Pagina xiii
... another. This apparent dissimilarity misled previous thinkers into assuming that these products must arise from different mental capacities, 10 11 operations, or modules. But in fact they all xiii Overview by Chapter.
... another. This apparent dissimilarity misled previous thinkers into assuming that these products must arise from different mental capacities, 10 11 operations, or modules. But in fact they all xiii Overview by Chapter.
Pagina xiv
... fact they all arise from the same mental operation. There are systematic mapping schemes, and systematic ways of combining them, that underlie ostensibly different conceptions and expressions. Logic and metaphor, for example, equally ...
... fact they all arise from the same mental operation. There are systematic mapping schemes, and systematic ways of combining them, that underlie ostensibly different conceptions and expressions. Logic and metaphor, for example, equally ...
Pagina xv
... fact, it can operate over any number of mental spaces as inputs. Blending can also apply repeatedly: The product of blending can become the input to a new operation of blending. The examples we consider here range from a newspaper ...
... fact, it can operate over any number of mental spaces as inputs. Blending can also apply repeatedly: The product of blending can become the input to a new operation of blending. The examples we consider here range from a newspaper ...
Pagina 5
... fact, the two-dimensional arrangement of colors in the photograph has almost nothing in common with a baby, and it takes a brain evolved over three billion years and trained through several months of early life to construct the identity ...
... fact, the two-dimensional arrangement of colors in the photograph has almost nothing in common with a baby, and it takes a brain evolved over three billion years and trained through several months of early life to construct the identity ...
Pagina 6
... fact a spectacular product of complex, imaginative, unconscious work. Identity and opposition, sameness and difference, are apprehensible in consciousness and so have provided a natural beginning place for form approaches. But identity ...
... fact a spectacular product of complex, imaginative, unconscious work. Identity and opposition, sameness and difference, are apprehensible in consciousness and so have provided a natural beginning place for form approaches. But identity ...
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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The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending And The Mind's Hidden Complexities Gilles Fauconnier,Mark Turner Anteprima limitata - 2003 |
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