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Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied LinguisticsVol. 30:1 (2017) ► pp. 299–324
Conceptual complexes in cognitive modeling
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez | University of La Rioja
The present paper goes beyond previous treatments of cognitive models, especially conceptual metaphor and metonymy, by drawing on linguistic evidence. It introduces needed refinements into previous meaning construction accounts by investigating the activity of conceptual complexes, i.e., combinations of cognitive models whose existence can be detected from a careful examination of the meaning effects of some linguistic expressions. This improvement endows the linguist with a more powerful set of analytical tools capable of dealing with a broader range of phenomena than previous theories. The paper first explores metaphoric and metonymic complexes, and their meaning effects. Then, it addresses the metonymic exploitation of frame complexes and image-schematic complexes. The resulting analytical apparatus proves applicable to the study of fictive motion and image-schema transformations, which have so far been addressed in Cognitive Linguistics without making explicit any relation between them or with other phenomena. We give evidence that these two phenomena can be dealt with as specific cases of metonymic domain expansion and domain reduction respectively. This means that fictive motion and image-schema transformations can be fully integrated into an encompassing account of cognitive modeling based on the activity of single or combined cognitive operations on basic or complex cognitive models.
Keywords: cognitive model, cognitive operation, fictive motion, image-schema transformation, image-schematic complex, metaphoric complex, metonymic complex
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.What is a cognitive model?
- 3.Conceptual complexes
- 3.1Frame complexes
- 3.2Image-schematic complexes
- 3.3Combining cognitive operations
- 3.3.1Metaphtonymy
- 3.3.2Chaining metonymies
- 3.3.3Chaining metaphors
- 3.3.4Amalgamating metaphors
- 4.The metaphoric and metonymic exploitation of frame and image-schematic complexes
- 4.1Frame complexes, metaphor, and metonymy
- 4.2Image-schematic complexes and metonymy
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Published online: 23 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.30.1.12rui
https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.30.1.12rui
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