Spaces, Worlds, And Grammar - University Of Chicago

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.