Blending and coded meaning: Literal and figurative meaning in cognitive semantics

Coulson, Seana; Oakley, Todd

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2004.09.010

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“…Instead of the traditional blending model, L. Brandt and P. Brandt (2005) propose a network of six mental spaces designed to derive the critical meaning of utterances. Although their proposal is not fully compatible with the model proposed by Turner (1998, 2002), some aspects of this alternative can be regarded as a constructive contribution to conceptual integration theory (see Coulson & Oakley, 2005).…”

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“…A fictive entity in a blended space has distinct counterparts related to one another via a vital relation 100 from multiple input spaces. Fictive motion in a blended space simultaneously compresses all of its counterparts from the various input spaces in a conceptual integration network (see Coulson and Oakley, 2005 for a discussion of blending in fictive motion from the perspective of virtual change). 99 Jackendoff (198399 Jackendoff ( , 2002 suggests two possibilities concerning the relationship between GO and GOEXT.…”

Section: Cognitive Linguistic Models Of Fictive Motionmentioning

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Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

Waliński¹

2014

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Section: Criticisms Of Conceptual Blendingmentioning

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Section: Cognitive Linguistic Models Of Fictive Motionmentioning

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Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

Waliński¹

2014

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“…An initial interpretation of a counterfactual premise might follow the particular constraints of the conceptual combination that is required (e.g., ''If blood contained chlorophyll''; see Costello & Keane, 2000;Springer & Murphy, 1992; for accounts in terms of conceptual blending, see Coulson, 2001;Coulson & Fauconnier, 1999;Coulson & Oakley, 2005). Readers might not consider information that undermines coherency of the counterfactual world (e.g., that high levels of chlorophyll in blood are potentially deadly to animals and humans, and that blood would not be blood if it contained mostly chlorophyll, see Murphy & Medin, 1985), as part of the 'suspension of disbelief' required for such sentences (e.g., Searle, 1975).…”

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“If a lion could speak …”: Online sensitivity to propositional truth-value of unrealistic counterfactual sentences

Nieuwland

2013

Journal of Memory and Language

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People can establish whether a sentence is hypothetically true even if what it describes can never be literally true given the laws of the natural world. Two event-related potential (ERP) experiments examined electrophysiological responses to sentences about unrealistic counterfactual worlds that require people to construct novel conceptual combinations and infer their consequences as the sentence unfolds in time (e.g., “If dogs had gills…”). Experiment 1 established that without this premise, described consequences (e.g., “Dobermans would breathe under water …”) elicited larger N400 responses than real-world true sentences. Incorporation of the counterfactual premise in Experiment 2 generated similar N400 effects of propositional truth-value in counterfactual and real-world sentences, suggesting that the counterfactual context eliminated the interpretive problems posed by locally anomalous sentences. This result did not depend on cloze probability of the sentences. In contrast to earlier findings regarding online comprehension of logical operators and counterfactuals, these results show that ongoing processing can be directly impacted by propositional truth-value, even that of unrealistic counterfactuals

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“…30 See also (Coulson & Oakley 2005) for their employment of a 'grounding box' in their mental-space analysis of figurative meanings. The phenomenon is characterized as a box because, in the authors' analysis, it is not thought of as a mental space but as a list: i.e., the box 'contains the analyst's list of important contextual assumptions...' (Coulson & Oakley 2005: 1517.…”

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