The Literary Mind
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Kay, Paul, 161 Kingjobn, 64-68 Koestler, Arthur, 72
La Bruyere, Jean de, 133
Lakoff, George, 16, 26, 39, 47, 79, 81, 87- 88,179-80
Langacker, Ronald, 16, 161
Language, 11; accusative, 156; acquisition of, 159; bioprogram hypothesis, 162; creole, 162; ergative, 156; origin of, 141; viewed by Aristotle as arising by projection from conceptual structure, 160
Latin, 146
Lewis, C. S., 7, 169 n
LIFE Is A JOURNEY, 88-90
Linguistics, 140
Macbeth, 40
MacNeice, Louis, 169 n
Mahomet, 63
Mandelblit, Nili, 58, 172 n Mandler, Jean, 24, 181 Manipulation of physical objects, 41 Mapping. See Projection
Maps, 97
McClelland, James, 170 n
Mental space, 10-11; vs. conceptual domain,
108; temporal, 121
Meredith, M. Alex, 174 n
Mervis, Carolyn, 24
Metaphor, basic, 88
Metaphor, conduit, 42
Metonymy, 10, 155
Milton, 53, 56
MIND Is A BODY MOVING IN SPACE, 43, 88 Modal structure, 29
“Moth and the Star, The," 138 Movement complex, 21
Movement of self, 20-21
Narrative imagining, 4, 5, 9, 20, 25 Nathan the Prophet (Second Book of Samuel), 6-, and boomerang, 100
Natural selection, 162-67 “Nature ofThings, The," 133 Nesting of stories, 127, 131
186 .8 INDEX
Neural Darwinism, 160, 169 n, 180 Neuronal Group Selection, 23, 111, 160, 180 Nonspatial events, 36
Oakley, Todd, 58, 172 n
Objects, 9; manipulation of, 41; prototypical, 21
Odyssey, 26-27, 33
Old Man and the Sea, Tbe, 96
On Interpretation (Aristotle), 160
On the Soul (Aristotle), 21, 170 n
Orientation tuning columns, 23
Ox and the Donkey, Tale of the (Tbe Tbousand and One Nights), 3, 10, 57-61
Paolo and Francesca (Inferno), 63
Parable, 5-7, 12-13, 17, 26-27, 57, 85, 118, 141; as argument, 95; as basis of language, 145; common patterns of, 26; literary, 5; as projection and extension of story, 26; and tense, 150; veiled, 101
Parallel distributed processing, 170 n
PEOPLE ARE PLANTS, 77, 80-82
Perception, spatial, 118
Personification, 80, 96; of Death-in—general as an actor, 32
Peter Pan, 134
PiLgr1'm’s Progress, 6, 44
Pinker, Stephen, 141, 162-65
Planning, 9, 20
“Porphyria’s Lover,” 30
Pound, Ezra, 38, 44
Prediction, 9, 20
Projection, 5-6, 8, 10, 163; of actor onto nonactor, 28; constraints on, 53; counterparts in, 10, 86; entrenched, 99; of image schemas, 17; multiple, 50; of nonspatial stories, 49; of spatial stories, 47
Pronoun, possessive, 66
Propositional structure, 164
Proust, Marcel, 38, 44-45, 82, 91-92, 120-- 23, 132
Proverb, 5, 87
Realism, 136 Reasoning, abstract, 18
Reddy, Michael, 42
Reeke, G. N.,Jr., 180
Reentrant mapping, 23
Reentrant signaling and integration, 111.-12 Reichenbach, Hans, 152
Relations, causal, 18
Remembrance of Things Past, 38, 132 Resultative construction, 157 Rhetoric of Fiction, Tbe, 74-75, 135 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, 139
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, 7 Role, 132-34; connectors, 133 Rosch, Eleanor, 24, 180 Rumelhart, David, 170 n
Rymer, Russ, 140
Sacks, Oliver, 44
Samuel, Second Book of (Old Testament), 6,
100
Sawyer, J., 180
Self—movement, 20-21
Sensation, 117; capacity for, 20; mechanisms of, 170n
Sequences, 18
Shahrazad, 3-9, 58-60, 125, 129-30, 137
Shahriyar, 3-4, 9, 58-60, 125, 130
Shakespeare, William, 38, 64, 67
Sheer-Khan, 139
Soul, 21
Source and target input spaces, 17, 67, 107
Spatial perception, 118
Spenser, Edmund, 53
Sporns, O. J., 180
Stein, Barry E., 174 n
Stimulus field partitioned into concrete objects, 169 n
Stoppard, Tom, 85
Story, 5-10; as mental activity, 5, 13; spatial, 13-15; structure of, 141
Storytelling, 12
Sun, Douglas, 58, 138
Sweetser, Eve, 16, 43, 47, 170 n, 171 n, 179
Syntax as arising from the projection of semantics onto phonology, 160
Tailor’s story, The (Tbe Thousand and One Nights), 129 Talking animals, 11, 139
INDEX (2. 187
Talmy, Leonard, 29, 47-48, 161, 179
Target and source input spaces, 6, 17, 67, 107
Temporal space, 121
Temporal viewpoint and focus, 118, 121, 149
Tense, 148-52; as grammaticalization of viewpoint and focus, 161
Tense and parable, 150
Thanatos (A/testis), 32
Theophrastus, 133
Thomas, Francis-Noel, 179
Thousand and One Nigbts, The, 4, 67, 102, 125-26, 130-32
Through the Looking Glass, 7
Thurber, James, 138
Time, 48, 152
Time and the Verb, 149
Troilus and Cressida, 38
Varieties of Parable, The, 169 n
Verb phrase, 155
Viewpoint, 117, 122, 134‘, mental, 126, 131;
spatial and temporal, 149
Vision, 12
Visual cortex, extra—striate, 110
Visual integration, 111
Visual representations of mental blends, 98 Vizier, 3-5, 8, 60
Vocal sound, 141, 144
Waste/and, Tbe, 7
Williams, George C., 167
Williams, Joseph, and Gregory Colomb, 158-59, 176 n
Word order in English vs. case endings in Latin, 156
XYZ construction, 104-7