Introduction: Mental Spaces and Discourse Analysis

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction: Mental Spaces and Discourse Analysis 1
4. Connecting the dots: Mental spaces and metaphoric language in discourse 27
5. The text and the story: Levels of blending in fictional narratives 51
6. Fictive interaction blends in everyday life and courtroom settings 79
7. A Semiotic Approach to Fictive Interaction as a Representational Strategy in Communicative Meaning Construction 109
8. Designing Clinical Experiences with Words: Three Layers of Analysis in Clinical Case Studies 149
9. Compression in Interaction 179
10. Guided Conceptualization: Mental Spaces in Instructional Discourse 209
11. Looking at analyses of mental spaces and blending / Looking at and experiencing discourse in interaction 235
12. "Mental Spaces" and "Blending" in Discourse and Interaction: A Response 247
13. Reflections on blends and discourse 251
14. Author index 257
15. Subject index 259