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Published 2008.
The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in
academic circles on many ...
Published 2008.
The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in
academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of
written and spoken discourse and interaction. At the same time, empirical insights from the fields of interaction and discourse provide a necessary
fundament for the development of the cognitive theories of discourse.
This collection of seven chapters and three commentaries aims at evaluating and developing MSCI as a theory of meaning construction in discourse and
interaction. MSCI will benefit greatly not only from empirical support but also from clearer refinement of its methodology and philosophical foundations.
This volume presents the latest work on discourse and interaction from a mental spaces perspective, surely to be of interest to a broad range of
researchers in discourse analysis.
