Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar / Edition 2

by Gilles Fauconnier, Eve Sweetser

Overview

In the highly influential mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and to engage in creative thought.

These twelve original papers extend the mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. Investigating the ties between mental constructs, they analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals; the metaphor system for conceptualizing the self; abstract change expressions in Japanese; mood in Spanish; deictic expressions; copular sentences in Japanese; conditional constructions; and reference in American Sign Language.

The ground-breaking research presented in this volume will be of interest to linguists and cognitive scientists.

The contributors are Claudia Brugman, Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff, Yo Matsumoto, Errapel Mejias-Bikandi, Laura A. Michaelis, Gisela Redeker, Jo Rubba, Shigeru Sakahara, Jose Sanders, Eve Sweetser, and Karen van Hoek.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226239248
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Series:	Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gilles Fauconnier is professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. Eve Sweetser is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1: Cognitive Links and Domains: Basic Aspects of Mental Space Theory
Eve Sweetser, Gilles Fauconnier.
2: Mental Spaces, Constructional Meaning, and Pragmatic Ambiguity
Claudia Brugman
3: Analogical Counterfactuals
Gilles Fauconnier
4: Sorry, I'm Not Myself Today: The Metaphor System for Conceptualizing the
Self
George Lakoff
5: Subjective-Change Expressions in Japanese and Their Cognitive and
Linguistic Bases
Yo Matsumoto
6: Space Accessibility and Mood in Spanish
Errapel Mejias-Bikandi
7: Cross-World Continuity and the Polysemy of Adverbial Still
Laura A. Michaelis
8: Alternate Grounds in the Interpretation of Deictic Expressions
Jo Rubba
9: Roles and Identificational Copular Sentences
Shigeru Sakahara
10: Perspective and the Representation of Speech and Thought in Narrative
Discourse
Jose Sanders, Gisela Redeker.
11: Mental Spaces and the Grammar of Conditional Constructions
Eve Sweetser
12: Conceptual Locations for Reference in American Sign Language
Karen van Hoek
Index