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

该项目将为国内和国际上对文学语言和心灵的研究做出重大贡献。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。该项目还具有更广泛的公众利益，因为它探索了为什么尽管科学理解取得了重大进展，我们却像乔叟和莎士比亚一样，很可能将大脑描述为“徘徊”或被划分为一个仓库。这个项目为研究思维和隐喻提供了一个新的视角，将重新定位当前关于语言使用和文化记忆的辩论，并促进基本的、广泛的相关性知识。

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.