Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521449496)

First published in 1985 (MIT Press), Fauconnier's influential book, Mental Spaces, was instrumental in shaping the new field of cognitive linguistics. The concept of mental spaces--that we develop constructs during discourse that are distinct from linguistic constructs but are established by linguistic expressions--provides a powerful new approach to problems in philosophy and cognitive science concerning thought and language. It includes a new preface that provides context for the theory, and a new foreword by George Lakoff and Eve Sweetser (both of U.C. Berkeley).

Author: Gilles Fauconnier
ISBN-10: 0521449499
ISBN-13: 9780521449496
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/1994
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.98w x 0.51d