Mental Spaces - Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language

Gilles Fauconnier, Eve Sweester, George Lakoff

Cambridge University Press

1994

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780521449496

Mental Spaces is the classic introduction to the study of mental spaces and conceptual projection, as revealed through the structure and use of language. It examines in detail the dynamic construction of connected domains as discourse unfolds. The discovery of mental space organization has modified our conception of language and thought: powerful and uniform accounts of superficially disparate phenomena have become available in the areas of reference, presupposition projection, counterfactual and analogical reasoning, metaphor and metonymy, and time and aspect in discourse. The present work lays the foundation for this research. It uncovers simple and general principles that lie behind the awesome complexity of everyday logic.