10.6084/m9.figshare.5831133.v1
Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles
Fauconnier
Lecture 1 - Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning
Brill Online
2018
metaphor
linguistics
construction
analogy
cognition
multimodal
blending
memory
creativity
culture
Linguistics
2018-02-04 19:51:37
Media
https://brill.figshare.com/articles/media/Lecture_1_-_Ten_Lectures_on_Cognitive_Construction_of_Meaning/5831133
<p>As we think and talk, rich arrays of mental
spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads
to new meaning, global insight, and compressions useful for memory and
creativity. A powerful aspect of
conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure in
all areas of human life (science, religion, art, ...). The emergence of complex metaphors creates
our conceptualization of time. The same
operations play a role in material culture generally. Technology evolves to produce cultural human
artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with
structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with
them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized,
learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted.</p>