Polysemy and conceptual blending

Constructive simulation of creative concept generation process in design: a research method for difficult-to-observe design-thinking processes

“…In order to do this, we employed the notion of 'polysemy' (multiple meanings of a word) as the second real-life phenomenon, since polysemy is believed to represent another important component of creativity. In general, creativity is assumed to be related to the richness of the related polysemy (Fauconnier and Turner 2003). Furthermore, it has been noted that the association between one concept and another forms the basis of the design-thinking process (Lai andChang 2006, Nagai andTaura 2006), and it is assumed that the complex process of association leads to the richness of the polysemy of a design idea.…”

Phenomenology and Cognitive Linguistics

“…The most authoritative summary of CL research up to date, The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Geeraerts and Cuyckens 2007a), represents much of the diversity mentioned in the previous paragraph, including the introspection-based analyses of Talmy (2000), the most developed theory of grammar within CL, the Cognitive Grammar of Langacker (1987Langacker ( , 2006, and the influential theory of Conceptual Integration ("blending") (Fauconnier and Turner 2002;Turner 2007), with roots in literature studies. Interestingly, the editors (Geeraerts and Cuyckens 2007b) point out in their introductory chapter to a rising tension within CL, which they formulate in epistemological/methodological terms:…”

Big–Thick Blending: A method for mixing analytical insights from big and thick data sources

“…The projection of these specific elements allows an emergent structure to develop. Thus, the blending process can derive concepts from the input spaces to provide relations that do not exist in the separate inputs (Fauconnier and Turner, 2003).…”