Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought.
| ISBN: | 9780195126679 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 1998 |
| Author: | Mark Turner |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 187 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of language Literary theory |