ON SOME HUMOROUS ASPECTS OF CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN POLITICIZED DISCOURSE

Extemporaneous Blending: Conceptual Integration in Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio

An “Off the Leash” cartoon by W. B. Park depicts a dozen or so pigs feeding at a trough. One pig, however, has his head raised, as if addressing the approaching farmer. The pig’s words are apparently expressed in the cartoon’s caption, “Garcon!” The cartoon thus compares the farmer in the cartoon to a waiter in a French restaurant, and the viewer is left to speculate about the nature of the cor...

Conceptual Blending in EL++

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...

Conceptual Blending in EL++

Conceptual Blending in EL++