About this title: Mental Spaces is the classic introduction to the study of mental spaces and conceptual projection, as revealed through the structure and use of language. It examines in detail the dynamic construction of connected domains as discourse unfolds. The discovery of mental space organization has modified our conception of language and thought: powerful and uniform accounts of superficially disparate phenomena have become available in the areas of reference, presupposition projection, counterfactual and analogical reasoning, metaphor and metonymy, and time and aspect in discourse. The present work ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1994-08-26
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1998
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
Description: ISBN 0521449499. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Tight sound copy in very good condition with heavy highlighting to first few chapters of the text. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
Description: Very good. Appearance of only slight previous use. Cover and binding show a little wear. All pages are undamaged with potentially only a few, small markings. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
Description: As New. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very little wear at all. Quite clean. "[The author] describes a theory of human knowledge representation and linguistic processing that provides a simple and uniform account of a wide variety of problems that have long perplexed both linguists and philosophers of language. " 190 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
Description: New. This book is a major advance in the study of reference, descriptions, and coreference-topics that have long been at the center of research in linguistics and the philosophy of language. read more
Description: New. Mental Spaces is the classic introduction to the study of mental spaces and conceptual projection through the structure and use of language. It examines in detail the dynamic construction of connected domains as discourse unfolds. The discovery of mental space organization has modified our conception of language and thought. The present work lays the foundation for this research. read more
Edition: 2ND ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521449496ISBN:0521449499
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. This book is a major advance in the study of reference, descriptions, and coreference-topics that have long been at the center of research in linguistics and the philosophy of language. ISBN10: 0521449499. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, New York
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780262060943ISBN:0262060949
Description: Near Fine. Near Fine book with Near Fine dust jacket. Allen Newell's signature appears on front flyleaf. All pages clean, crisp, and unmarked. Strong, tight spine. Some minor bumping to dj, elsefine. 185 pp. Octavo. read more
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