{"product_id":"spaces-worlds-and-grammar-9780226239248","title":"Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gilles Fauconnier\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Physical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The ground-breaking research presented in this volume will be of interest to linguists and cognitive scientists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614759796887,"sku":"9780226239248","price":5377.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226239248.webp?v=1775096046","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/spaces-worlds-and-grammar-9780226239248","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}