Counterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing /

Counterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing / / ed. by Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter, Tilmann Köppe.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Albrecht, Andrea,
Birke, Dorothee,
Butter, Michael,
Catellani, Patrizia,
Christ, Birte,
Danneberg, Lutz,
Dohrn, Daniel,
Elwenspoek, Miko,
Heinze, Rüdiger,
Hilpert, Martin,
Klauk, Tobias,
Kleeberg, Bernhard,
Köppe, Tilmann,
Lebow, Richard Ned,
Saint-Gelais, Richard,
Waldenegg, Georg Christoph Berger,
Warhol, Robyn,
Widmann, Andreas Martin,
HerausgeberIn:
Birke, Dorothee,
Butter, Michael,
Köppe, Tilmann,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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

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