Blending and metaphor

Grady, Joseph E.; Oakley, Todd; Coulson, Seana

doi:10.1075/cilt.175.07gra

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“…For example, blending theory explains why it is insulting to call a surgeon a butcher, even though meat cutters are not customarily considered incompetent. Grady, Oakley, and Coulson (1999) suggest that the incompetence inference arises from the composition of the butcher's techniques and instruments with the surgeon's goals in the blend. In the blend, the hybrid surgeon-butcher performs surgery on a human in the same manner a butcher might operate on a cow carcass.…”

Section: Conceptual Blending and Literal Mappingsmentioning

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Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study

2002

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Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 18 normal adults as they read sentences that ended with words used literally, metaphorically, or in an intermediate literal mapping condition. In the latter condition, the literal sense of the word was used in a way that prompted readers to map conceptual structure from a different domain. ERPs measured from 300 to 500 msec after the onset of the sentence-final words differed as a function of metaphoricity: Literal endings elicited the smallest N400, metaphors the largest N400, whereas literal mappings elicitedan N400 of intermediate amplitude.Metaphoric endings also elicited a larger posterior positivity than did either literal or literal mapping words. Consistent with conceptual blending theory, the results suggest that the demands of conceptual integration affect the difficulty of both literal and metaphorical language.

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Section: Conceptual Blending and Literal Mappingsmentioning

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Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study

2002

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“…14 14 The CMT and its theoretic assumptions (see e.g. Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999 have been criticized both by their adherents (Grady et al 1999;Stern 2000;Croft & Kruse 2004;Zlatev 2005Zlatev , 2007Zlatev , 2010 and their detractors (e.g., Aron & Jackendoff 1991, Haser 2005. Haser is particularly important, given her wide influence -although it is certainly true that not all scholars accept her criticism: see (Fontaine 2007).…”

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Cognitive Type and Visual Metaphorical Expression

Niño

Serventi

2009

Cognitive Semiotics

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The purpose of this paper is, first, to present a systematic cognitive type theory, which we believe can provide a better explanation of the semantic work of iconic signs than the iconic type theory proposed by Groupe µ (1992). The second objective is to present Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and to show its limitations in accounting for visual metaphoric phenomena. We suggest those constraints can be corrected with the cognitive type model. At the end, we attempt to illustrate how the cognitive type notion can explain visual metaphoric phenomena, taking into account the main aspects of CMT.

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“…The basic ideas behind conceptual integration theory have since been elaborated in the works of Fauconnier & Turner (2006[1998, 2002, Turner & Fauconnier (1995, Turner (2007), Coulson & Oakley (2000), Grady et al (1999). Conceptual blending is a basic cognitive operation, "highly creative but crucial to even the simplest kinds of thought" (Fauconnier & Turner 2002: 18).…”

Section: Conceptual Integration Theorymentioning

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#ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned: Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour

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Berberović²

2017

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The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political (Coulson & Pascual 2006, Coulson & Oakley 2006, Coulson 2006, Oakley & Coulson 2008 that blending can be used as a rhetorical tool influencing the audience to change the reality and even act upon it, the analysis of the construction of meaning of political humour as products of conceptual integration can reveal hidden ideologies in political discourse.

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Blending and metaphor

Cited by 428 publications

References 7 publications

Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study

Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study

Cognitive Type and Visual Metaphorical Expression

#ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned: Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour

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