Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Summary and Overview
• i. Argument summary
• ii. Argument overview
• Part A. Theoretical Prerequisites
• Chapter 1. Formal solutions of identity: the substantive identity
• 1.1 Chapter overview
• 1.2 Linguistics in the age of science
• 1.3 Formal identity: objects of mathematics
• 1.4 Network identity: objects of human conceptualisation
• 1.5 Identity as a human-scale concept
• 1.6 Chapter summary
• Chapter 2. Non-formal solutions of identity: identity as process
• 2.1 Chapter overview
• 2.2 The nominalist tradition: contingent existence
• 2.3 Ontological contingency as a feature of counterfactual thought
• 2.4 Plato’s idea: entity or process?
• 2.5 Identity as item in inventory and blended concept
• 2.6 Chapter summary
• Chapter 3. Identity and the present. Towards a cognitive model of the present
• 3.1 Chapter overview
• 3.2 Aristotle: reason, induction and deduction
• 3.3 Plotinus and Saint Augustine: knowledge and morality
• 3.4 Vox and eidos: time-point matrix and duration-matrix
• 3.5 Chapter summary
• Part B. Descriptive Applications
• Chapter 4. ‘Innovation’ and ‘creation’ within the Cognitive Model of the Present
• 4.1 Chapter overview
• 4.2 The Cognitive Model of the Present by Vyvyan Evans
• 4.3 Introducing the corpus study of ‘innovation’ and ‘creation’
• 4.4 Survey of British National Corpus 2007
• 4.4.1 Processes and things
• 4.4.2 Verb forms
• 4.4.3 Nominal forms
• Statement (1)
• 4.4.4 Nominals and verbs: distributive proportion
• Statement (2)
• Statement (3)
• 4.5 Dictionary entries of ‘create’ and ‘innovate’ word families
• Statement (4)
• Statement (5)
• 4.6 Two working hypotheses
• 4.7 Analysis of ‘innovation’ and ‘creation’ as concepts
• 4.7.1 Causality and temporality: BNC samples
• 4.7.2 Speculating about the limit options in theconceptualisation process
• 4.8 Verifying the configurationality hypothesis
• 4.8.1 Configurationality and counterfactuality
• 4.8.2 Conceptual blending account of ‘innovation’ and ‘creation’ concepts
• 4.9 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 5. ‘Innovation’ and ‘creation’ as principles in institutional management and aesthetics
• 5.1 Chapter overview
• 5.2 Towards a synthesis: summary of corpus findings
• 5.3 Example 1. Conceptualisation as an aspect of institutional management in the policy-making process
• 5.4 Example 2. Conceptualisation as an aesthetic aspect of literary texts
• 5.5 Example 3. Conceptualisation as an aesthetic aspect of literary texts (continued)
• 5.6 Example 4. Conceptualisations as an aesthetic aspect of sacred art
• 5.7 Chapter summary
• Chapter 6. Cognitive models of ‘innovation’ and ‘creation,’ human thought and perceptual modality
• 6.1 Chapter overview
• 6.2 Determinist results: open-ended and closed reason
• 6.3 Perceptual modality
• 6.4 Chapter summary
• General Conclusion
• Part C. References
• References
• Primary Sources
• Pre-modern
• Modern
• The Bible
• Secondary Sources
• List of Figures