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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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COMPARATIVE SEMANTICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTUAL BLENDING THEORY
Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) aims to provide a general cognitive model related to meaning construction. This theory was created based on the fundamental question raised by contemporary linguists about how a new concept is formed based on the human cognition system.
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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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Grammatical Conceptualization as a Poetic Strategy in E. E. Cummings' yes is a pleasant country
This article applies the theoretical principles of cognitive linguistics to E.E. Cummings’ poetic composition yes is a pleasant country. It combines the perspectives of conceptual metaphor theory, blending theory and the conceptual integration network ...
Pilar Alonso Rodríguez
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#ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned: Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour
The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political Internet humour can criticise current political affairs in a developing democracy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, applying a cognitive linguistic theory of
Nihada Delibegovic Dzanic +1 more
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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.
Michael Spitzer, Spitzer, Michael
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What is advertising without blending? Advertisements in women’s magazines
Conceptual integration theory, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner in 1993, has been successfully used in the study of a wide range of phenomena of human thought and action, from counterfactuals to metaphors, proving blending to be present in the simplest ...
Džanić Nihada Delibegović +1 more
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Pic Sets, Fan Cognition, and Fannish Networks of Meaning
Fans' creative works are not evidence of thinking but acts of thinking, forming part of the cognitive system of fandom. Work in cognitive science and philosophy can provide a useful theoretical framework for exploring the mental, embodied, cultural, and ...
Jessica Hautsch
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Conceptual Blending, the Second Naïveté, and the Emergence of New Meanings
The field of cognitive linguistics has generated a powerful set of theoretical tools for analyzing the ways in which we understand, communicate, and create concepts. In the conceptual integration theory of Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, the cognitive
Roberts Jason P.
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Translation of children’s literature has always been an important part of the study of translated works. From the perspective of conceptual blending, translation is a dynamic cognitive process involving multiple interactions among the translator, source ...
Fan, Kaifang, Bai, Wei
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