Article published in:
The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction
Edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler
[Human Cognitive Processing 55] 2016
► pp. 45–62

Generic integration templates for fictive communication

| University of Navarra, Spain
| Case Western Reserve University, USA
In this chapter, we seek to show that the human mind can create blended discourse, or fictive communication, because it is able to do advanced conceptual blending. Thanks to advanced blending, human beings can integrate unrelated experiences and concepts into new mental wholes with novel properties. We analyze how instances of fictive communication are made possible by generic templates for conceptual blending. Fictive communication is a blending pattern combining several generic templates, most of which were not originated in relation to discourse. Fictive communication inherits the whole structure of fictive interaction, which involves fictivity, compression patterns, and an interaction frame that includes counterfactuality. Complex, classic blended joint attention is added, and the interaction frame selected is the one for communication.
Keywords: conceptual blending, conceptual compression, frame blending, joint attention
Published online: 01 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.03pag
References

References

Cheney, D.L.
(1992) How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Coulson, S., & Pascual, E.
(2006) For the sake of argument: Mourning the unborn and reviving the dead through conceptual blending. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 4(1), 153–181. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Coulson, S.
(2001) Semantic leaps: Frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Coulson, S., & Pagán Cánovas, C.
(2013) Understanding timelines. Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, 5(1–2), 198–219.Google Scholar
Fauconnier, G.
(2005) Compression and emergent structure. Language and Linguistics, 6(4), 523–538.Google Scholar
(2009) Generalized integration networks. In V. Evans & S. Purcell (Eds.), New directions in cognitive linguistics (pp. 147–160). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
(2010) Causal compressions in language and thought. In G. Fauconnier (Ed.), Ten lectures on cognitive construction of meaning. Beijing: FLTR Press.Google Scholar
Fauconnier, G., & Turner, M.
(1994) Conceptual projection and middle spaces (UCSD Department of Cognitive Science Technical Report No. 9401). San Diego.Google Scholar
(1998) Conceptual integration networks. Cognitive Science, 22(2), 133–187. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
(2002) The way we think: Conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
Fillmore, C.J.
(1982) Frame semantics. In Linguistic Society of Korea (Ed.), Linguistics in the Morning Calm (pp. 111–137). Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company.Google Scholar
Minsky, M.
(1975) A framework for representing knowledge. In P.H. Winston (Ed.), The Psychology of Computer Vision (pp. 211–277). New York: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Mitani, J.C., Call, J., Kappeler, P.M., Palombit, R.A., & Silk, J.B.
(2012) The evolution of primate societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Mithen, S.
(1996) The origin of art: Natural signs, mental modularity, and visual symbolism. In E. Maschner (Ed.), Darwinian archaeologies (pp. 197–217). New York: Plenum. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Pagán Cánovas, C.
(2010) Erotic emissions in Greek poetry: A generic integration network. Cognitive Semiotics, 6, 7–32. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Pascual, E.
(2006) Fictive interaction within the sentence: A communicative type of fictivity in grammar. Cognitive Linguistics, 17(2), 245–267. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
(2014) Fictive interaction: The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Recanati, F.
(1995) Le présent épistolaire: Une perspective cognitive. L’Information Grammaticale, 66, 38–44. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Schank, R.C., & Abelson, R.P.
(1977) Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding: An inquiry into human knowledge structures. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.Google Scholar
Talmy, L.
(2000) Toward a cognitive semantics, volume 1: Concept structuring systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Thomas, F.-N., & Turner, M.
(1996) Clear and simple as the truth: Writing classic prose. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Turner, M.
(2006) Compression and representation. Language and Literature, 15(1), 17–27. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
(2008) Frame blending. In R. Rossini Favretti (Ed.), Frames, corpora, and knowledge representation (pp. 13–32). Bologna: Bononia University Press.Google Scholar
(2014) The origin of ideas: Blending, creativity, and the human spark. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Cited by

Cited by other publications

Abdel-Raheem, Ahmed
2018. Mental models, (de)compressions, and the actor’s process in body-swap movies. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2 ► pp. 376 ff. Crossref logo
Besada, José L. & Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas
2020. Timelines in Spectral Composition: A cognitive approach to musical creativity. Organised Sound 25:2 ► pp. 142 ff. Crossref logo
Piata, Anna & Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas
2017. Powerful rhyme and sluttish time: A cross-linguistic study of time personification in poetic discourse. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 26:1 ► pp. 18 ff. Crossref logo
TURNER, MARK
2017. Conceptual compression and alliterative form – a response to Harbus. English Language and Linguistics 21:2 ► pp. 221 ff. Crossref logo
Turner, Mark
2019.  In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition [Mathematics in Mind, ], ► pp. 29 ff. Crossref logo
Vouvaris, Petros & Dimitris Tasoudis
2018. B(l)ending time, (de)compressing identity: Creative thought and meaning construction in Copy Shop (2001). Musicae Scientiae 22:1 ► pp. 88 ff. Crossref logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 28 october 2020. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.