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

Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas | University of Navarra, Spain

Mark Turner | 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

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