The article criticizes the negative influence of modern analytic, anti-semantic and anti-phenomenological thinking on cognitive semantics, and the errors or weaknesses of analysis it induces in current Mental Space Theory (MST). It also shows how a less inhibited theory of meaning, mental spaces and blending could develop more useful analyses of empirical occurrences, such as the artifacts called 'material anchors' and works of art - Here exemplified by a painting by Matisse. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Brandt, P. A. (2005). Mental spaces and cognitive semantics: A critical comment. Journal of Pragmatics, 37(10 SPEC. ISS.), 1578–1594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2004.10.019
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