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Cartesian linguistics : a chapter in the history of rationalist thought / / Noam Chomsky ; edited with a new introduction by James McGilvray [[electronic resource]]
| Cartesian linguistics : a chapter in the history of rationalist thought / / Noam Chomsky ; edited with a new introduction by James McGilvray [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Chomsky Noam |
| Edizione | [Third edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 158 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 401 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cartesian linguistics
Creativity (Linguistics) Generative grammar |
| ISBN |
0-511-73794-7
1-107-19978-6 1-283-33011-3 9786613330116 1-139-13462-0 1-139-12957-0 1-139-13343-8 0-511-50471-3 0-511-80311-7 0-511-50685-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the third edition; Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Creative aspect of language use; Deep and surface structure; Description and explanation in linguistics; Acquisition and use of language; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Chomsky Noam
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cartesian linguistics : a chapter in the history of rationalist thought / / Noam Chomsky ; edited with a new introduction by James McGilvray [[electronic resource]]
| Cartesian linguistics : a chapter in the history of rationalist thought / / Noam Chomsky ; edited with a new introduction by James McGilvray [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Chomsky Noam |
| Edizione | [Third edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 158 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 401 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cartesian linguistics
Creativity (Linguistics) Generative grammar |
| ISBN |
0-511-73794-7
1-107-19978-6 1-283-33011-3 9786613330116 1-139-13462-0 1-139-12957-0 1-139-13343-8 0-511-50471-3 0-511-80311-7 0-511-50685-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the third edition; Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Creative aspect of language use; Deep and surface structure; Description and explanation in linguistics; Acquisition and use of language; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782614503321 |
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Chomsky Noam
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction / / Chloe Harrison
| Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction / / Chloe Harrison |
| Autore | Harrison Chloe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 415.01835 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive grammar
Discourse analysis, Literary Creativity (Linguistics) Stylists |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480262203321 |
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Harrison Chloe
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| Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction / / Chloe Harrison
| Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction / / Chloe Harrison |
| Autore | Harrison Chloe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 415.01835 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive grammar
Discourse analysis, Literary Creativity (Linguistics) Stylists |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Cognitive grammar : an overview -- Action chains and grounding in Enduring Love -- The reference point model : tracking character roles in The New York Trilogy -- Interrelated references and fictional world elaboration in Coraline -- Mind-modelling perspective in 'Great Rock and Roll Pauses' -- Scanning the compositional path of 'Here We Aren't, So Quickly -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792957903321 |
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Harrison Chloe
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| Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction / / Chloe Harrison
| Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction / / Chloe Harrison |
| Autore | Harrison Chloe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 415.01835 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive grammar
Discourse analysis, Literary Creativity (Linguistics) Stylists |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Cognitive grammar : an overview -- Action chains and grounding in Enduring Love -- The reference point model : tracking character roles in The New York Trilogy -- Interrelated references and fictional world elaboration in Coraline -- Mind-modelling perspective in 'Great Rock and Roll Pauses' -- Scanning the compositional path of 'Here We Aren't, So Quickly -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822415203321 |
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Harrison Chloe
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| Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cognitive grammar in literature / / Chloe Harrison [and three others]
| Cognitive grammar in literature / / Chloe Harrison [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive grammar
Discourse analysis, Literary Creativity (Linguistics) Literature - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-7056-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cognitive Grammar in Literature; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; List of contributors; Part I.Narrative fiction; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The practice of literary linguistics; 2. Cognitive Grammar: An overview; 2.1 Constructions; 2.3 Specificity; 2.4 Prominence; 2.5 Action chains; 2.6 Dynamicity; 2.7 Perspective; 2.8 Discourse; 3. Literary adaptations from CG; 3.1 Fictive simulation; 3.2 Ambience; 3.3 Point of view and consciousness; 3.4 De- and re-familiarisation; 3.5 Ethics: Responsibility and ascription; 4. The state of the art; War, Worlds and cognitive Grammar
1. The grammatical battleground 2. The grammar of anticipation; 3. The grammar of action; 4. The grammar of ambience; 5. The grammar of literature; Construal and comics; 1. Introduction; 2. Fun Home - a Gothic autobiography; 3. Construal in Cognitive Grammar; 4. Construal in Fun Home; 4.1 Profiling; 4.2 Profiling in Fun Home; 4.3 Viewing arrangements; 4.4 Viewing arrangements in Fun Home; 5. The current discourse space model; 6. Conclusion; Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 1. 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 2. Windows, profiles, splices 3. The cognitive turn vs. structuralism 4. Discourse event frames; 5. Micro- and meso-windows; 6. Conceptual splicing; 7. Quantitative/ qualitative specificity; 8. Conclusion; Resonant Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; 1. Text-driven cognition; 2. Metaphor, cognition and text; 3. 'It seemed like we were holding on to each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night': Analysing the texture and resonance of simile; 3.1 Cognitive Grammar and modality: Fictionalising the ground 3.2 Cognitive Grammar and the force dynamics of modal similes: 'seemed like' versus 'was like'3.3 The source domain as literary figure: Simile and resonance; 4. Conclusion: More than mapping; Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale; 1. World construal; 2. Structuring reality; 3. Building text worlds; 4. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 5. Simulating experience; Point of view in translation; 1. Preliminaries; 2. POV; 3. POV in Alice in Wonderland; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Reference; 4.2 Processes; 4.3 Epistemic modality; 4.4 Units and constructions; 4.5 Iconicity; 5. The grammar of paratext 6. Conclusions Part II.Studies of poetry; Profiling the flight of 'The Windhover'; 1. Introduction: Literature and Cognitive Grammar; 2. Profiling Hopkins' 'The Windhover'; Foregrounding the foregrounded; Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon's 'A working party'; 1. Introduction; 2. 'A working party' and the importance of 1916; 3. The distribution of -ing forms; 4. The third person pronoun 'he'; 5. Reference point relationships and action chains; 6. Conclusion; 1. The poem; 2. The song-situation; 3. Tense and aspect in Hungarian; 4. Taylor on tense and aspect 5. Greimas and Courtés on aspectualisation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464930103321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cognitive grammar in literature / / Chloe Harrison [and three others]
| Cognitive grammar in literature / / Chloe Harrison [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive grammar
Discourse analysis, Literary Creativity (Linguistics) Literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 90-272-7056-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cognitive Grammar in Literature; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; List of contributors; Part I.Narrative fiction; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The practice of literary linguistics; 2. Cognitive Grammar: An overview; 2.1 Constructions; 2.3 Specificity; 2.4 Prominence; 2.5 Action chains; 2.6 Dynamicity; 2.7 Perspective; 2.8 Discourse; 3. Literary adaptations from CG; 3.1 Fictive simulation; 3.2 Ambience; 3.3 Point of view and consciousness; 3.4 De- and re-familiarisation; 3.5 Ethics: Responsibility and ascription; 4. The state of the art; War, Worlds and cognitive Grammar
1. The grammatical battleground 2. The grammar of anticipation; 3. The grammar of action; 4. The grammar of ambience; 5. The grammar of literature; Construal and comics; 1. Introduction; 2. Fun Home - a Gothic autobiography; 3. Construal in Cognitive Grammar; 4. Construal in Fun Home; 4.1 Profiling; 4.2 Profiling in Fun Home; 4.3 Viewing arrangements; 4.4 Viewing arrangements in Fun Home; 5. The current discourse space model; 6. Conclusion; Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 1. 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 2. Windows, profiles, splices 3. The cognitive turn vs. structuralism 4. Discourse event frames; 5. Micro- and meso-windows; 6. Conceptual splicing; 7. Quantitative/ qualitative specificity; 8. Conclusion; Resonant Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; 1. Text-driven cognition; 2. Metaphor, cognition and text; 3. 'It seemed like we were holding on to each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night': Analysing the texture and resonance of simile; 3.1 Cognitive Grammar and modality: Fictionalising the ground 3.2 Cognitive Grammar and the force dynamics of modal similes: 'seemed like' versus 'was like'3.3 The source domain as literary figure: Simile and resonance; 4. Conclusion: More than mapping; Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale; 1. World construal; 2. Structuring reality; 3. Building text worlds; 4. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 5. Simulating experience; Point of view in translation; 1. Preliminaries; 2. POV; 3. POV in Alice in Wonderland; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Reference; 4.2 Processes; 4.3 Epistemic modality; 4.4 Units and constructions; 4.5 Iconicity; 5. The grammar of paratext 6. Conclusions Part II.Studies of poetry; Profiling the flight of 'The Windhover'; 1. Introduction: Literature and Cognitive Grammar; 2. Profiling Hopkins' 'The Windhover'; Foregrounding the foregrounded; Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon's 'A working party'; 1. Introduction; 2. 'A working party' and the importance of 1916; 3. The distribution of -ing forms; 4. The third person pronoun 'he'; 5. Reference point relationships and action chains; 6. Conclusion; 1. The poem; 2. The song-situation; 3. Tense and aspect in Hungarian; 4. Taylor on tense and aspect 5. Greimas and Courtés on aspectualisation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789251603321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cognitive grammar in literature / / Chloe Harrison [and three others]
| Cognitive grammar in literature / / Chloe Harrison [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive grammar
Discourse analysis, Literary Creativity (Linguistics) Literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 90-272-7056-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cognitive Grammar in Literature; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; List of contributors; Part I.Narrative fiction; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The practice of literary linguistics; 2. Cognitive Grammar: An overview; 2.1 Constructions; 2.3 Specificity; 2.4 Prominence; 2.5 Action chains; 2.6 Dynamicity; 2.7 Perspective; 2.8 Discourse; 3. Literary adaptations from CG; 3.1 Fictive simulation; 3.2 Ambience; 3.3 Point of view and consciousness; 3.4 De- and re-familiarisation; 3.5 Ethics: Responsibility and ascription; 4. The state of the art; War, Worlds and cognitive Grammar
1. The grammatical battleground 2. The grammar of anticipation; 3. The grammar of action; 4. The grammar of ambience; 5. The grammar of literature; Construal and comics; 1. Introduction; 2. Fun Home - a Gothic autobiography; 3. Construal in Cognitive Grammar; 4. Construal in Fun Home; 4.1 Profiling; 4.2 Profiling in Fun Home; 4.3 Viewing arrangements; 4.4 Viewing arrangements in Fun Home; 5. The current discourse space model; 6. Conclusion; Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 1. 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 2. Windows, profiles, splices 3. The cognitive turn vs. structuralism 4. Discourse event frames; 5. Micro- and meso-windows; 6. Conceptual splicing; 7. Quantitative/ qualitative specificity; 8. Conclusion; Resonant Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; 1. Text-driven cognition; 2. Metaphor, cognition and text; 3. 'It seemed like we were holding on to each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night': Analysing the texture and resonance of simile; 3.1 Cognitive Grammar and modality: Fictionalising the ground 3.2 Cognitive Grammar and the force dynamics of modal similes: 'seemed like' versus 'was like'3.3 The source domain as literary figure: Simile and resonance; 4. Conclusion: More than mapping; Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale; 1. World construal; 2. Structuring reality; 3. Building text worlds; 4. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 5. Simulating experience; Point of view in translation; 1. Preliminaries; 2. POV; 3. POV in Alice in Wonderland; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Reference; 4.2 Processes; 4.3 Epistemic modality; 4.4 Units and constructions; 4.5 Iconicity; 5. The grammar of paratext 6. Conclusions Part II.Studies of poetry; Profiling the flight of 'The Windhover'; 1. Introduction: Literature and Cognitive Grammar; 2. Profiling Hopkins' 'The Windhover'; Foregrounding the foregrounded; Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon's 'A working party'; 1. Introduction; 2. 'A working party' and the importance of 1916; 3. The distribution of -ing forms; 4. The third person pronoun 'he'; 5. Reference point relationships and action chains; 6. Conclusion; 1. The poem; 2. The song-situation; 3. Tense and aspect in Hungarian; 4. Taylor on tense and aspect 5. Greimas and Courtés on aspectualisation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813295003321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creative confluence / / Johan F. Hoorn
| Creative confluence / / Johan F. Hoorn |
| Autore | Hoorn Johan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.3/5 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Creativity (Linguistics)
Problem solving |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-7057-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Creative Confluence; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Make - Take; Table of contents; Introduction; 1.Puzzled; 2.Urgency of creativity; 3.Creativity in theory; 3.1Creativity in the humanities; 4.Creativity in application; 5.Heading for common ground; 6.The Confluence Theory of Creativity; 7.About this book; Acknowledgements; chapter 1; Confluence; 1.Cooling down; 2.Thermodynamics; 3.Assembling; 4.Blind variation, selective retention; 5.Brain architecture; 6.Selective attention: Survival or opportunities; 7.Two types of problem solving; 8.Cultural history
9.Epistemics and perceptual flaws10.The need for transformation; 11.The creative process; 12.Conditions of creativity; 13.Probabilism, determinism, and the rule of rules; 14.Creative output: Sigmoid accumulation of innovations; 15.Creative Sigmoid at three scales; 16.Fractal recursion of the sigmoid; Acknowledgement; chapter 2; Two world views; 1.A world view follows from what we believe; 2.Survival versus opportunity thinking; 2.1Old brain, young brain; 3.Ontological classification, epistemic appraisal; 4.Determinism, probabilism; 5.Two world views leading to three theories 5.1The ordered universe: A vision of continuity and determinism5.1.1Analytic decomposition; 5.1.2Hierarchical; 5.1.3No free will, no heroes, no revolutions; 5.1.4Creative drivers; 5.1.5Slow evolution; 5.1.6Invention is social; 5.1.7Copying from others; 5.1.8Harmony and perfection; 5.2A subversive universe: Discontinuity and the outlier; 5.2.1Against dehumanization; 5.2.2Deviation and disharmony; 5.2.3Genius: the freedom of formidable spirits; 5.2.4Iconic heroes; 5.2.5Hop, step, jump; 5.3Chaos: Coincidence and non-random variance; 5.3.1Pure coincidence; 5.3.2Mechanized coincidence 5.3.3Serendipity: The human hunch5.3.4Mean and variance: Playing with partial determinism; 5.3.5Fractal recursion; 6.Classic, Romantic, Chaotic; 7.Reconciliation: Serendipity in a partly deterministic system; 8.Creativity on three scales; 8.1The breakdown of determinism or why Rutherford was wrong; 8.2The law of 'anything can happen' or why Rutherford is sometimes right; chapter 3; Problem solving; 1.The two ways; 2.Problems are not problematic; 3.Commonalities; 4.Convergent and divergent thinking; 4.1Conventional computing systems are "convergent"; 4.2Humans can do both 5.Rational problem solving5.1Breaking down the problem; 5.2Forward and backward reasoning; 5.3Difference reduction; 5.4Means-end analysis; 5.5Problem complexity; 6.Intelligence and creativity; 7.Switching perspectives: narrow vs. wide; 8.The balance between convergence and divergence; 8.1Intelligence: first convergence, then divergence; 8.2Creativity: first divergence, then convergence; 9.Analogy: An associative reasoning strategy; 9.1Solving an analogy; 9.2Limitations of analogy use; 10.Experts and novices; 10.1Experts converge; 10.2Novices diverge; 10.2.1Alternate uses 10.3Being knowledgeable |
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Hoorn Johan
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| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creative confluence / / Johan F. Hoorn
| Creative confluence / / Johan F. Hoorn |
| Autore | Hoorn Johan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.3/5 |
| Collana | Linguistic Approaches to Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Creativity (Linguistics)
Problem solving |
| ISBN | 90-272-7057-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Creative Confluence; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Make - Take; Table of contents; Introduction; 1.Puzzled; 2.Urgency of creativity; 3.Creativity in theory; 3.1Creativity in the humanities; 4.Creativity in application; 5.Heading for common ground; 6.The Confluence Theory of Creativity; 7.About this book; Acknowledgements; chapter 1; Confluence; 1.Cooling down; 2.Thermodynamics; 3.Assembling; 4.Blind variation, selective retention; 5.Brain architecture; 6.Selective attention: Survival or opportunities; 7.Two types of problem solving; 8.Cultural history
9.Epistemics and perceptual flaws10.The need for transformation; 11.The creative process; 12.Conditions of creativity; 13.Probabilism, determinism, and the rule of rules; 14.Creative output: Sigmoid accumulation of innovations; 15.Creative Sigmoid at three scales; 16.Fractal recursion of the sigmoid; Acknowledgement; chapter 2; Two world views; 1.A world view follows from what we believe; 2.Survival versus opportunity thinking; 2.1Old brain, young brain; 3.Ontological classification, epistemic appraisal; 4.Determinism, probabilism; 5.Two world views leading to three theories 5.1The ordered universe: A vision of continuity and determinism5.1.1Analytic decomposition; 5.1.2Hierarchical; 5.1.3No free will, no heroes, no revolutions; 5.1.4Creative drivers; 5.1.5Slow evolution; 5.1.6Invention is social; 5.1.7Copying from others; 5.1.8Harmony and perfection; 5.2A subversive universe: Discontinuity and the outlier; 5.2.1Against dehumanization; 5.2.2Deviation and disharmony; 5.2.3Genius: the freedom of formidable spirits; 5.2.4Iconic heroes; 5.2.5Hop, step, jump; 5.3Chaos: Coincidence and non-random variance; 5.3.1Pure coincidence; 5.3.2Mechanized coincidence 5.3.3Serendipity: The human hunch5.3.4Mean and variance: Playing with partial determinism; 5.3.5Fractal recursion; 6.Classic, Romantic, Chaotic; 7.Reconciliation: Serendipity in a partly deterministic system; 8.Creativity on three scales; 8.1The breakdown of determinism or why Rutherford was wrong; 8.2The law of 'anything can happen' or why Rutherford is sometimes right; chapter 3; Problem solving; 1.The two ways; 2.Problems are not problematic; 3.Commonalities; 4.Convergent and divergent thinking; 4.1Conventional computing systems are "convergent"; 4.2Humans can do both 5.Rational problem solving5.1Breaking down the problem; 5.2Forward and backward reasoning; 5.3Difference reduction; 5.4Means-end analysis; 5.5Problem complexity; 6.Intelligence and creativity; 7.Switching perspectives: narrow vs. wide; 8.The balance between convergence and divergence; 8.1Intelligence: first convergence, then divergence; 8.2Creativity: first divergence, then convergence; 9.Analogy: An associative reasoning strategy; 9.1Solving an analogy; 9.2Limitations of analogy use; 10.Experts and novices; 10.1Experts converge; 10.2Novices diverge; 10.2.1Alternate uses 10.3Being knowledgeable |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786834703321 |
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Hoorn Johan
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| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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