Language and the Creative Mind

Language and the Creative Mind

The University of Chicago Press

2013

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.

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About the Author

Barbara Dancygier

Barbara Dancygier is a cognitive linguist, interested in the applications of metaphor theory, blending, and construction grammar to a variety of phenomena, especially the expression of viewpoint. She also works on the applications of cognitive linguistic theories to various discourse types, especially literary discourse and multimodal forms in digital and creative contexts. She is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project on “Understanding multimodal communication,” which will investigate artifacts combining language, image, and materiality, form the cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics perspective.

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