The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding Book

The traditional view of the mind holds that poetic language is a special human ability requiring different cognitive and linguistic skills than employed in ordinary language. The author overturns the traditional perspective by showing how...Read More

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  • ASDA

    In this bold new work Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.

  • Book Description

    Ideas and research from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and literary theory establish important links between the poetic structure of thought and everyday language usage in this attempt to overturn the traditional view that poetic language requires unique linguistic skills.

  • 0521429927
  • 9780521429924
  • Raymond W. Gibbs Jr
  • 26 August 1994
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 540
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