The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 39. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 350 JORDAN ZLATEV Zlatev Jordan and Christian Balkenius. 2001. Introduction Why epigenetic robotics In Christian Balkenius Jordan Zlatev Hideki Kozima Kerstin Dautenhahn and Cynthia Breazeal eds. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems 1-4. Lund Sweden Lund University. Zlatev Jordan and Peerapat Yangklang. 2003. A third way to travel The place of Thai in motion event typology. In Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven eds. Relating events in narrative Crosslinguistic and cross-contextual perspectives 159-90. Mahwah NJ Lawrence Erlbaum. CHAPTER 14 MENTAL SPACES GILLES FAUCONNIER 1. What Is a Mentai Space Mental spaces are very partial assemblies constructed as we think and talk for purposes of local understanding and action. They contain elements and are structured by frames and cognitive models. Mental spaces are connected to long-term schematic knowledge such as the frame for walking along a path and to long-term specific knowledge such as a memory of the time you climbed Mount Rainier in 2001. The mental space that includes you Mount Rainier the year 2001 and your climbing the mountain can be activated in many different ways and for many different purposes. You climbed Mount Rainier in 2001 sets up the mental space in order to report a past event. If you had climbed Mount Rainier in 2001 sets up the same mental space in order to examine a counterfactual situation and its consequences. Max believes that you climbed Mount Rainier in 2001 sets it up again but now for the purpose of stating what Max believes. Here is a picture of you climbing Mount Rainier in 2001 evokes the same mental space in order to talk about the content of the picture. This novel has you climbing Mount Rainier in 2001 reports the author s inclusion of a perhaps fictional scene in a novel. Mental spaces are constructed and modified as thought and discourse unfolds and are connected to each other by various kinds of .
