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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
©2011.
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| Series: | Linguae & litterae ;
12. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.