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The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (Revised edition)

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The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language - Turner, Mark
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Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought.

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The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language 1998, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195126679

Revised edition

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The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language 1996, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195104110

Hardcover