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The Communicative Mind. A Linguistic Exploration of Conceptual Integration and Meaning Construction

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Title: The Communicative Mind. A Linguistic Exploration of Conceptual Integration and Meaning Construction
Author: Line Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date of publication: June 2013
Audience: College/higher education, Professional & scholarly, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly, Professional & Vocational
Type of publication: Monograph (pp. 636)
Format: Hardback
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4144-3
Isbn: 1-4438-4144-7
E-book expected September 2013

Advancing a research approach to meaning construction connecting linguistics, philosophy, literary studies, neurophenomenology, cognitive science and semiotics, The Communicative Mind presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the various ways in which the intersubjectivity of communicating interactants manifests itself in language. The book supports its view of the mind as highly conditioned by the domain of interpersonal communication by an extensive range of empirical linguistic data from fiction, poetry and everyday discourse. Among recent theoretical advances in what Brandt refers to as thecognitive humanities is Fauconnier and Turner’s theory of conceptual integration which, offering a bridge between pragmatics and semantics, has proved widely influential in Cognitive Poetics and Linguistics. With its constructive criticism of Fauconnier and Turner’s “general mechanism” hypothesis, according to which “blending” can explain everything from
the origin of language to binding in perception, Brandt’s book brings the scope and applicability of Conceptual Integration Theory into the arena of scientific debate.

The Communicative Mind takes on a host of interrelated theories in cognitive linguistics and based on its in-depth critique of the examined ideas proposes a multifaceted outlook on how language is shaped by the intersubjectivity of interacting cognizers:

* semantics & pragmatics: the grounding of language in a context of dialogue
* fictive interaction in rhetoric and grammar

* fictive motion & change

* the concept of mental spaces in relation to philosophy, neural binding, metaphor, syntax

* a typology of conceptual integration

* the notion of relevance in meaning construction
* cognitive approaches to literary studies

* reading and interpretation of literary text

* semiotic iconicity in poetry: a typology

Preview available: http://www.amazon.com/The-Communicative-Mind-Exploration-Construction/dp/1443841447