Conceptual Blending, Form and Meaning

Conceptual Blending, Form and Meaning1

1 The present paper presents a synopsis of work on language, form, and meaning in conceptual integration theory. It consists of excerpts and summaries from G. FAUCONNIER, "Conceptual Blending" in N. SMELSER and P. BALTES (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000; G. FAUCONNIER and M. TURNER, “Blending as a Central Process of Grammar”, in A. GOLDBERG (ed.), Conceptual ...

Conceptual blending theory and psychiatry

Conceptual blending has been proposed as a model for a variety of cognitive phenomena, and has the potential to contribute to our theoretical understanding of psychopathology. For example, from the perspective of conceptual blending theory, delusions are the product of conceptual integration processes similar to those present in many normal cognitive functions; however, there is aberrant select...

Conceptual Blending in EL++

Conceptual Blending and Airplane Navigation

Fauconnier and Turner’s conceptual blending theory (1998) has been used to analyze many types of cognitive phenomena, particularly the role blending plays in language comprehension. In this paper we illustrate how blending also has a role in mediating expert performance, such as understanding the meaning of a chart or a navigation display. Pilots use blends to assess flight situations, predict ...

Conceptual Blending in EL++

The cognitive theory of conceptual blending models human creativity as a mental process that combines two mental spaces into a new mental space, called a blend. According to this theory, a blend is constructed by taking the commonalities among the input mental spaces into account, to form a so-called generic space, and by projecting their non-common structure in a selective way to the novel ble...