Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0877609

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0877609

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

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

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 31-03-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $108,879.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

British And Irish | English | Literary Studies | Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

British And Irish | English | Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Languages and Literature | Literary Studies

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