A Cognitive-Semiotic Approach to Conceptual Integration: Blending in Metaphor
The Communicative Mind. A Linguistic Exploration of Conceptual Integration and Meaning Construction. Monograph (pp. 636). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. [Included in 2010 PhD dissertation "Language and enunciation", Aarhus University]
101 Pages Posted: 4 Mar 2017
Date Written: 2009
Abstract
Excerpt (pp. 231-323) from The Communicative Mind (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), incuding an updated and expanded version of the 2005 Brandt & Brandt paper 'Making sense of a blend. A cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphor'. In F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 3 (216-249). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
The excerpt includes analyses of the butcher-surgeon metaphor (3.1.2) and the "gravedigging metaphor" (3.1.3):
3.1.2 A cognitive-semiotic approach to conceptual integration: Blending in metaphor 3.1.3 The gravedigging metaphor
Keywords: Metaphor, conceptual integration, blending
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