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Author Holmqvist, Kenneth

Title Infinity in language : conceptualization of the experience of the sublime / by Kenneth Holmqvist and Jaros"aw P"uciennik
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 179 pages)
Summary The book Infinity in Language is a research monograph on the problem of the sublime in language. The authors use methods from cognitive semantics and poetics in order to thoroughly describe how the sublime is used in language. It is a unique attempt to account for one of the most fascinating problems of the human mind: the concept of infinity, and how the experience of infinity and enthusiasm is expressed in language. The book includes new findings in cognitive semantics relating to rhetoric ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-172) and index
Notes English
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Subject Sublime, The.
Philosophy and cognitive science.
Semantics.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Sublime, The, in literature.
semantics.
Cognitivism, cognitive theory.
Literary theory.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Philosophy and cognitive science
Semantics
Sublime, The
Sublime, The, in literature
Form Electronic book
Author P"uciennik, Jaros"aw
ISBN 1443803901
9781443803908
1282035827
9781282035829
9786612035821
661203582X