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Counterfactual thinking, counterfactual writing /

Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines, such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology, counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Birke, Dorothee, Butter, Michael, Köppe, Tilmann, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2011.
Colección:Linguae & litterae ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: England Win; First Steps Toward an Explication of Counterfactual Imagination; Thought Experiments and Literature; Counterfactual Explanation in Literature and the Social Sciences; Counterfactual Thinking in Physics; Counterfactuals in the Social Context: The Case of Political Interviews and Their Effects; A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective on Counterfactuality; Significance and Abstraction: Scientific Uses of Counterfactual Thought Experiments in the Early 20th Century; What-If? Counterfactuality and History; Counterfactuals, Contingency, and Causation.
  • Plot vs. Story: Towards a Typology of Counterfactual Historical Novels"If I Were a Man": Functions of the Counterfactual in Feminist Fiction; Temporal Tourism: Time Travel and Counterfactuality in Literature and Film; "What Might Have Been Is Not What Is": Dickens's Narrative Refusals; How To Do Things With Worlds: From Counterfactuality to Counterfictionality; List of Contributors.