IDIOMS IN ACTION: A CASE OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY VS BLENDING THEORY [PDF]
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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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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The Analysis of Metaphors of Saadi’s Boostan Based on Conceptual Blending Theory [PDF]
The aim of the present study study is to describe and analyze the conceptual domains used in metaphors of Saadi’s Boostan based on conceptual blending theory as presented by Fauconnier and Turner (1998, 2002).
Abbas Ali Ahangar +2 more
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Constraining conceptual integration theory: Levels of blending and disintegration [PDF]
Abstract This paper proposes a new typology of blends which incorporates the notion of conceptual disintegration as an indispensable counterpart to blending (‘disintegration’ is here used as a technical cover term for a number of more specific related phenomena complementing ‘integration’, such as fragmentation and differentiation). The new typology –
Zhang, Le, Le Zhang
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Conceptual Blending in Political News Headlines [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to scrutiny the political news headlines of Ebtekar newspaper based on the theory of conceptual blending. The Analysis of the theory is based on the emerging meaning and structure. This theory consists of four inputs, each of
Sepide kia +2 more
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The study of Persian compound adjectives on the basis of conceptual blending theory [PDF]
INTRODUCTIONThis article is studying Persian compound adjectives based on conceptual blending theory. The method of the research is descriptive-analytic and the data collection is corpus-based.
Bahar Pourshahian +3 more
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A New Look at Radio and Television Teasers Using Conceptual Blending Theory [PDF]
Conceptual blending theory was introduced to explain human creative ability in linking elements in different domains and to find a shared schema structure between them by Fauconnier and Turner (2000).
Hossein Razavian +2 more
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From Salvation to Evolution to Therapy: Metaphors, Conceptual Blending and New Theologies
New theologies developed in tandem with evolutionary biology during the nineteenth century, which have been called metaphysical evolutionisms and evolutionary theologies.
Erin Prophet
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Since the cognitive turn in metaphor studies in the late 1970s, metaphor has been seen as a cognitive phenomenon reflecting how we think, alongside its classic role as a powerful literary device.
Sui HE, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH, Caiwen WANG
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Conceptual blending in English and Serbian question-and-answer jokes: cultural transfer issues
This paper analyzes English and Serbian question-and-answer jokes using the cognitive linguistic theoretical framework of conceptual blending, which relies on mental spaces as cognitive packets of information used to interpret the world around us and ...
Predrag Niketić
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