Language and the Creative Mind (Paperback)

Barbara Dancygier

ISBN 10: 1575866706 / ISBN 13: 9781575866703

Published by Centre for the Study of Language & Information, Stanford, 2014

About this Item

Paperback. This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and other embodied communicative modalities, such as gesture, while at the same time expanding the traditional limits of linguistic and cognitive enquiry into creative domains such as music, literature, and visual images. Papers in this collection show how the study of language paves the way for these new areas of investigation. They bring issues of multimodal communication to the attention of linguists, while also looking through and beyond language into various domains of human creativity. This refreshed view of the relations across various communicative domains will be important not only to linguists, but also to all those interested in the creative potential of the human mind. Cognitive studies of linguistics have begun to examine the interaction between language and other modes of communication, namely gesture, music, and visual images. This volume brings together papers from the Eleventh Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language and the Creative Mind (Paperback)
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information, Stanford
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575866706
• ISBN 13: 9781575866703
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and other embodied communicative modalities, such as gesture, while at the same time expanding the traditional limits of linguistic and cognitive enquiry into creative domains such as music, literature, and visual images. Papers in this collection show how the study of language paves the way for these new areas of investigation. They bring issues of multimodal communication to the attention of linguists, while also looking through and beyond language into various domains of human creativity. This refreshed view of the relations across various communicative domains will be important not only to linguists, but also to all those interested in the creative potential of the human mind.

About the Authors

Barbara Dancygier is professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. 

Jennifer Hinnell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.