عنوان

Counterfactual thinking, counterfactual writing

(Number (ISBN

1283403048

(Number (ISBN

3110268663

(Number (ISBN

9781283403047

(Number (ISBN

9783110268669

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b568010

Title Proper

Counterfactual thinking, counterfactual writing

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter, Tilmann Köppe.

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Berlin ; Boston

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

De Gruyter

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©2011.

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(vi, 256 pages) : illustrations

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Linguae & litterae, 12.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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 other disciplines, most notably the social sciences. This volume provides an overview of the current definitions and uses of the concept of counterfactuality in philosophy, historiography, political sciences, psychology, linguistics, physics, and literary studies.

Counterfactuals (Logic)

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy -- Social aspects.

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edited by Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter, Tilmann Köppe.

Dorothee Birke

Michael Butter

Tilmann Köppe

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[Book]

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