Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences
Avenues, challenges, and limitations
Published on 13. July 2011
Book
Hardback
313 pages
978-90-272-2384-5 (ISBN)
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Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of theories, concepts, and methods, which impedes the productive transfer of knowledge in both directions. In the course of the 'cognitive turn' in the humanities and social sciences, many disciplines have selectively borrowed ideas from 'core cognitive sciences' like psychology and artificial intelligence. The day-to-day practice of interdisciplinarity thus thrives on one-directional borrowings. Focusing on cognitive approaches in linguistics and literary studies, this volume explores bi-directionality, a genuine transdisciplinary interchange in which both disciplines are borrowing and lending. The contributions take different perspectives on bi-directionality: some extend uni-directional borrowing practices and point to avenues and crossroads, while others critically discuss obstacles, challenges, and limitations to bi-directional transfer.
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Insgesamt zeugen die Beitraege von einer guten Entwicklung der Kognitiven Poetik, das Themenspektrum und die Vielfalt der Methoden in sozialwissenschaftliche und korpuslinguistische Richtungen zu erweitern. In dieser Hinsicht fuehrt Bi-Direktionalitaet tatsaechlich zu einer Bereicherung der kognitiven Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften. -- Prof. Dr. Ralph Mueller, Universitaet Freiburg, in Journal of Literary Theory 2012-06-26More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2384-5 (9789027223845)
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Marcus Callies | Wolfram R. Keller | Astrid Lohöfer
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences
Avenues, challenges, and limitations
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Content
1. Editors and contributors; 2. Introduction. Bi-directionality: Avenues, challenges, and limitations (by Callies, Marcus); 3. I. Avenues for bi-directionality; 4. Genre between the humanities and the sciences (by Steen, Gerard J.); 5. Culture-specific concepts of emotionality and rationality (by Niemeier, Susanne); 6. Widening the goalposts of cognitive metaphor research (by Callies, Marcus); 7. How novels feel: Emotional and rational reading processes in contemporary fiction (by Keller, Wolfram R.); 8. Cognitive poetics and the negotiation of knowledge (by Freissmann, Stephan); 9. WRITING is medicine: Blending cognitive and corpus stylistics (by Busse, Beatrix); 10. II. Challenges to and limitations on bi-directionality; 11. Collective aesthetics and the Mere Exposure Effect (by Kleeman, Alexandra); 12. Embodied mind and cross-cultural narrative patterns (by Zhang, Yehong); 13. The mind and the text / the mind in the text (by Vanderbeke, Dirk); 14. Verbal irony in Shakespeare's dramatic works (by Muller, Wolfgang G.); 15. Invisible, visible, grammaticalization (by Strobel, Liane); 16. How does the mind do literary work? (by Thoms, Gary); 17. Cognitive science meets language pedagogy (by Ziem, Alexander); 18. The conceptualization of personality: Converging and diverging evidence (by Goschler, Juliana); 19. Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science (by Stefanowitsch, Anatol); 20. Index