Abstract: Abstract When mental spaces do not simply map onto each other but partially blend their conceptual content, we talk about “conceptual integration” or, as the process has become commonly known, “blending.” Conceptual integration is one of the newly developed areas of cognitive science. The leading figures in this paradigm of research are Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, whose book The Way We Think (2002) serves as the basis of this chapter. The theory of conceptual integration owes a great deal to the theory of conceptual metaphor but also complements it in important ways (see, e.g., Grady, Oakley, and Coulson, 1999). The most obvious difference between the two is that instead of working with only two domains (source and target) conceptual integration works with four or more spaces (input space r, input space 2, blended space, and generic space). The resulting model of conceptual integration is often referred to as the Network Model. The name indicates the network of spaces (i.e., input spaces, blended space, etc.) that commonly participate in the creation of meaning.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-10-12
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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