ASP, Amalgamation, and the Conceptual Blending Workflow [PDF]
We present a framework for conceptual blending – a concept invention method that is advocated in cognitive science as a fundamental, and uniquely human engine for creative thinking. Herein, we employ the search capabilities of ASP to find commonalities among input concepts as part of the blending process, and we show how our approach fits within a ...
Manfred Eppe +5 more
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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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Conceptual blending and musical emotion [PDF]
The scholarly literature on conceptual blending and emotion is very scant. One exception is a short section in Fauconnier and Turner (2002) focused on the emotion of anger. Fauconnier and Turner refer to the cross-cultural research of Lakoff and Kövecses (1987) on the anger script. The present article takes this dialogue on anger as a starting point to
Michael Spitzer, Spitzer, Michael
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Music and the English Lyric Poem: Explporations in Conceptual Blending [PDF]
Music and The English Lyric Poem: Explorations in Conceptual Blending Although lyrics are addressed primarily to the ear, the development of lyric poetry, that is of 'lyrical' poetry that is not necessarily meant to be sung , is partly the ...
Green, Keith
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Towards generating novel games using conceptual blending [PDF]
We sketch the process of creating a novel video game by blending two video games specified in the Video Game Description Language (VGDL), following the COINVENT computational model of conceptual blending.
Joseph Corneli +3 more
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Comparison of the Use of Conceptual Blending in Literary and Scientific Writing Styles [PDF]
One of the important topics in cognitive linguistics is conceptual blending, which creatively combines two distinct concepts and has been used to explain literary structures. In this article, we demonstrate that the use of conceptual blending is not only
Hossein Razavian +2 more
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English Nominals with the Incorporated Object as a Result of Two-Level Conceptual Blending
The article deals with the phenomenon of idiomatic nominals with the incorporated object, which are English complex nouns of a definite concept structure. The author regards them as a result of conceptual blending.
Ekaterina A. Lukyanchenko
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Conceptual Blends Across Image Macro Genres
This paper analyzes image macros via the theoretical framework of conceptual blending on the example of online responses to 2011 and 2012 doomsday predictions. To date, conceptual blending has shown promise in the analysis of a variety of internet memes;
Barczewska Shala
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A marriage of convenience or an amicable divorce: Metaphorical blends in the debates on Brexit
The paper investigates the interaction of conceptual blending and conceptual metaphor in producing figurative creativity in discourse. The phenomenon of figurative creativity is defined by Kövecses (2005) as creativity arising through the cognitive ...
Berberović Sanja, Mujagić Mersina
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The Function of Mental Spaces and Conceptual Blending on the Cognition of Divine Attributes in the Quran within the Framework of Fauconnier and Turner's Theory [PDF]
The Holy Quran, as the miracle of speech and in the form of a divine book, has been used to elevate humanity’s religious perspective. In the path of developing the cognition of God's attributes and reforming human beliefs in this domain, it employs ...
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