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Author : Bob Samples
Release : 1976
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis The Metaphoric Mind by : Bob Samples
Download or read book The Metaphoric Mind written by Bob Samples. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph E. Couture
Release : 2013
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 529/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Metaphoric Mind by : Joseph E. Couture
Download or read book A Metaphoric Mind written by Joseph E. Couture. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Joe challenges the reader to examine both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal approaches to the world and demonstrates the differences between Indigenous knowledge and Western thought."--Ed Buller.
Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Release : 2019-08-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Metaphors in the Mind by : Jeannette Littlemore
Download or read book Metaphors in the Mind written by Jeannette Littlemore. This book was released on 2019-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor, including, for example, the shape of one's body, age, gender, physical or linguistic impairments, ideology and religious beliefs. It will appeal to students and researchers in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology.
Author : George Lakoff
Release : 2008-12-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Metaphors We Live By by : George Lakoff
Download or read book Metaphors We Live By written by George Lakoff. This book was released on 2008-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Author : Keith J. Holyoak
Release : 2019-02-26
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Spider's Thread by : Keith J. Holyoak
Download or read book The Spider's Thread written by Keith J. Holyoak. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities—poets, philosophers, and critics—and from the sciences—psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem—by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda—and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind. Holyoak uses Whitman's poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge—who called poetry “the best words in their best order”—and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration “the brain is wider than the sky,” Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.
