Mental spaces in discourse and interaction / edited by Todd Oakley, Anders Hougaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oakley, Todd, 1966-

Hougaard, Anders.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 170.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. v. 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

vi, 262 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Publishing, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of written and spoken discourse and interaction. At the same time, empirical insights from the fields of interaction and discourse provide a necessary fundament for the development of the cognitive theories of discourse. This collection of seven chapters and three commentaries aims at evaluating and developing MSCI as a theory of meaning construction in discourse and interaction. MSCI will benefit greatly not only from empirical support but also from clearer refinement of its methodology and philosophical foundations. This volume presents the latest work on discourse and interaction from a mental spaces perspective, surely to be of interest to a broad range of researchers in discourse analysis.

Contents:

Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Mental spaces and discourse analysis

Introducing mental spaces and blending: Achilles sees a tortoise

What is a mental space?

Mental spaces and discourse studies

Embodied cognition is not cognitivism and CA is not behaviorism

Overview of the volume

Acknowledgements

References

Connecting the dots

Introduction

Mental spaces and integration networks

To connect the dots

Screaming dots

Conclusion

Appendix

The text and the story

Story versus text: The role of narrative sequence

Narrative anchors, emergent cross-mappings, and cross-input projection

Levels of mental-space embeddings in the narrative

Viewpoint compression and blending

Fictive interaction blends in everyday life and courtroom settings1

Courtroom interaction

Many communicative events as one

The inferable as speaking

The final decision as a moralistic address

Fictive interaction as a fundamental cognitive process

Conclusions

A semiotic approach to fictive interaction as a representational strategy in communicative meaning construction

Semantics and pragmatics

`Fictive verbal interaction'

Metonymic fictive interaction

Contrastive co-temporality blends

Virtual being blends

Contrast blends

Analogy blends

Concluding remarks

Designing clinical experiences with words

The genre-layer: Intuition and factor analysis

The artifact-layer: Mental space analysis of six clinical texts

The grammar layer: How to build mental spaces with words and phrases

Compression in interaction

0. Introduction

1. Data &amp

method.

2. Packing up turns at talk

3. Turn packing utterances as a type of conceptual compression

4. Some concluding remarks

Appendix: Transcript glossary

Guided conceptualization

Three key ideas

Analyses of instructional discourse

Discussion

Transcript 1

Transcript 2

Looking at analyses of mental spaces and blending / Looking at and experiencing discourse in interaction

Whose blend is it that we are looking at on paper?

Seeing speakers setting up their mental spaces and blends

Feeling mental spaces

``Mental spaces'' and ``blending'' in discourse and interaction

Reflections on blends and discourse

Author index

Subject index

The Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612152122

9781282152120

1282152122

9789027291455

9027291454

OCLC:

648354247