2001-07-07 A new perception on life, language and literature, Great

Mark Turner sees the everyday mind as a literary mind. He connect the study of literature to whatever is basic to human beings. The cognitive approach tries to ask the questions of what it means to be human, and Turner understand literature as one of the most developed products of everyday language and cultural concepts. In "The Literary Mind" he explores metaphors and proverbs as basic for our human understanding. Blending is seen as a basic mental operation whose uniform structural and dynamic properties apply over many areas of thought and action. The book is very interesting and provides the reader with a new perception on life, language and literature.