The University of California professor Raymond Gibbs argues that human cognition is poetic and that figurative imagination is the way we normally understand ourselves and the world in which we live. Overturning the traditional view of the mind, which holds that thought and language are inherently literal and that poetic language is a special human ability requiring different cognitive and linguistic skills than employed in ordinary language, Gibbs shows how figurative aspects of language reveal the poetic structure of mind. Ideas and research from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and literary theory are used to establish important links between the poetic structure of thought and everyday use of language. The book evaluates current philosophical, linguistic, and literary theories of figurative language, using tools provided by psycholinguistic and cognitive psychology research.
Raymond Gibbs dimostra in quest’opera che la cognizione umana è profondamente poetica e che l’immaginazione figurata è il modo in cui capiamo noi stessi e il mondo in cui viviamo. Secondo una visione tradizionale della mente, pensiero e linguaggio sarebbero letterali e il linguaggio poetico una speciale capacità umana che richiederebbe abilità linguistiche e cognitive diverse da quelle solitamente attivate nel linguaggio comune. Gibbs capovolge tale impostazione e, passando in rassegna un enorme mole di ricerche elaborate in ambito filosofico, linguistico, antropologico e critico-letterario, mostra quanto gli aspetti figurati del linguaggio rivelino della struttura poetica della mente.
LA POETICA DELLA MENTE. PENSIERO, LINGUAGGIO E COMPRENSIONE FIGURATI
NIEDDA D
2006-01-01
Abstract
The University of California professor Raymond Gibbs argues that human cognition is poetic and that figurative imagination is the way we normally understand ourselves and the world in which we live. Overturning the traditional view of the mind, which holds that thought and language are inherently literal and that poetic language is a special human ability requiring different cognitive and linguistic skills than employed in ordinary language, Gibbs shows how figurative aspects of language reveal the poetic structure of mind. Ideas and research from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and literary theory are used to establish important links between the poetic structure of thought and everyday use of language. The book evaluates current philosophical, linguistic, and literary theories of figurative language, using tools provided by psycholinguistic and cognitive psychology research.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.