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Literature and Cognition (Volume 21)
Jeremy Hobbs
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hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 238 x 160. Weight in Grams: 502.
Cognitive science, with its guiding metaphor of the mind as a computer, has made substantial progress towards an understanding of how people comprehend and produce discourse. The essays in this book apply these insights to problems in the interpretation of literature. The first two chapters present the outline of a cognitive theory of discourse and use it to shed light on some classic issues in literary theory, including the roles of the author's intention and the reader's brief systems in the meaning of a literary work. The next three chapters are more technical investigations of discourse interpretation, metaphor, and discourse ... Read more
Cognitive science, with its guiding metaphor of the mind as a computer, has made substantial progress towards an understanding of how people comprehend and produce discourse. The essays in this book apply these insights to problems in the interpretation of literature. The first two chapters present the outline of a cognitive theory of discourse and use it to shed light on some classic issues in literary theory, including the roles of the author's intention and the reader's brief systems in the meaning of a literary work. The next three chapters are more technical investigations of discourse interpretation, metaphor, and discourse ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Language
English
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9780937073537
SKU
V9780937073537
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99-15
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