conceptual blending |
Working Definition:
conceptual blending consists in integrating partial structures through a generic space from two separate
input mental spaces into a structure with emergent properties
within a third mental space.
Disciplinary Definitions:
See Fouconnier & Turner, The Way We Think, 2002, 45ff.
on "The Elements of Blending." They outline the process and identify its components.
Comments:
I would prefer to use the expression, "cognitive blending" to include images as well as concepts
See Fouconnier & Turner, The Way We Think. (2002). The authors speak of "inhabiting a blend" so as to experience the blend which is counter-factual (virtual). {29}I like the use of "inhabiting" here. The imagination allows us to "inhabit" a virtual world and disregard or suspend the "real" world.
Notes
Blending is NOT analogizing in the classical sense of mapping a source to a target. However, analogies are an aspect of the cognitive operation of blending [??] {Fauconnier, Mapping 1999, 18ff.}
Check:
need to sort out the distinctions between mapping, analogizing, and blending.
jjs
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