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Conceptual compression and alliterative form – a response to Harbus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2017

MARK TURNER
MARK TURNER*
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University, 607 Crawford Hall, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7068, USAturner@case.edu
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Research in our time offers a welcome flood tide of investigation into how cognitively modern human beings use their basic mental operations to think and act. With luck, it will not ebb. It could become standard, in the way that calculus, once it arose, abided. This tide offers special emphasis, crucial for this issue, on the cognitive origins and operations of language and literature, and in particular on the ways in which systems of multimodal forms can be deployed to prompt for mental operation.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 21 , Special Issue 2: Cognitive approaches to the history of English , July 2017 , pp. 221 - 226
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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