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IDIOMS IN ACTION: A CASE OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY VS BLENDING THEORY
This paper addresses the question of how the Conceptual Metaphor Theory with its well-established mechanism of cross-domain conceptual mappings, on the one hand, and the Conceptual Integration Theory, or Blending Theory with its mechanism of combining ...
Yurii Kovalyuk
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Correspondence Theory and Phonological Blending in French [PDF]
Though less productive than rival word-formation processes like compounding and affixation, blending is still a rich source of neologisms in French. Despite this productivity, however, blends are often seen by scholars as unpredictable, uninteresting ...
Lee Scott
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Algorithmic Aspects of Theory Blending [PDF]
In Cognitive Science, conceptual blending has been proposed as an important cognitive mechanism that facilitates the creation of new concepts and ideas by constrained combination of available knowledge. It thereby provides a possible theoretical foundation for modeling high-level cognitive faculties such as the ability to understand, learn, and create ...
Maricarmen Martínez +9 more
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COGNITIVE APPRAOCH TO ANIMAL IMAGERY VIA AUTOINTERTEXTUALITY (BASED ON IRWIN SHAW’S WRITING STYLE)
The current article deals with the analysis of animal imagery in the novels by Irwin Shaw, putting forward the Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) based on G. Fauconnier and M. Turner’s theory of cognition.
Hasmik Kajberuni, Anahit Makaryan
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Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction
John Sanders’ Theology in the Flesh, the first comprehensive overview of the toolkit that contemporary cognitive linguistics offers for theological appropriation, despite its remarkable success, gives rather minimal attention to blending theory, one of ...
Masson Robert
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Cognitive Linguistics can be defined as an approach to language that is mainly relied on people's perceptions of the world and how they perceive, understand, and conceptualize it. The Conceptual Blending Theory , which was established by J Fauconnier and M. Turner, is affirmed in this study. in order to explain concepts like Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Zainab Abdullah, Fatima Raheem Abbas
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Conceptual and Semantic Explanation of Persian Idioms Based on Conceptual Blending Theory [PDF]
Idioms are an inseparable part of any language. Therefore, people frequently use them in everyday speech. Since idioms have complex semantic structures, in order to understand their meaning and main message, one needs to use their allegorical meaning ...
Ghazal Baghbani, Fatemeh Karampour
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Serious Games, Conceptual Blending, and Creative Learning [PDF]
Background: Many efforts have been put into using serious games for education over the past two decades. Although there are different definitions for serious games, there is a relative agreement that the education of knowledge or skills through or by ...
Masoud Kowsari, Mehrdad Garousi
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A blend of methods of recursion theory and topology
This paper continues the authors' work [such as ibid. 93, 125--151 (1998; Zbl 0946.03052); ibid. 98, 87--110 (1999; Zbl 0954.03043)] providing a point-free foundation to computable/recursive analysis.
Iraj Kalantari, Larry Welch
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Espaces Mentaux et Intégration Conceptuelle : Retour sur la Constitution de Théories Soeurs
This paper is an attempt at describing the origins and the evolution of mental space and conceptual blending theories. The first part depicts the theoretical context in which Fauconnier was immersed, and the kinds of problems his new construct, mental ...
Jean-Michel Fortis et Gilles Col
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