Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9789004360716
ISBN-13 : 9004360719
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Book Synopsis Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning by : Gilles Fauconnier

Download or read book Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning written by Gilles Fauconnier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we think and talk, rich arrays of mental spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads to new meaning, global insight, and compressions useful for memory and creativity. A powerful aspect of conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure in all areas of human life (science, religion, art, ...). The emergence of complex metaphors creates our conceptualization of time. The same operations play a role in material culture generally. Technology evolves to produce cultural human artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized, learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted.


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