Publications

Publication details [#42581]

Coulson, Seana and Todd Oakley. 2005. Blending and coded meaning: Literal and figurative meaning in cognitive semantics. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (10) : 1510–1536.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

blending | code | cognitive semantics | figurative meaning | literal meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores the relationship between literal and figurative meanings within the perspective of Fauconnier and Turner's mental spaces and conceptual blending theory.