Metaphor and Mind: Literary Texts, Cultural Transmission, and How We Think about the Mind

该项目将为国内和国际文学语言和心灵研究做出重大贡献。它的广泛适用性将提高澳大利亚在跨学科研究方面的国际声誉。该项目也是更普遍的公众利益，因为它探讨了为什么，尽管在科学认识的重大进展，我们很可能像乔叟和莎士比亚描述的心灵为“流浪”或作为一个分隔仓库。在提供一个新的角度来研究的思想和隐喻，这个项目将重新定位当前的辩论语言使用和文化记忆，并有助于基本的，广泛的相关性的知识。

This project will make a significant contribution to national and international research on both literary language and the mind. Its wide applicability will boost Australia's international reputation in interdisciplinary research. The project is also of more general public interest in that it probes why, despite major advances in scientific understanding, we are as likely as Chaucer and Shakespeare were to describe the mind as 'wandering' or as a compartmentalised storehouse. In providing a new perspective to the study of the mind and metaphor, this project will reposition current debate about language use and cultural memory and contribute to knowledge of fundamental, wide-ranging relevance.