Talk:Conceptual blending/Resources

Resources for Conceptual Blending

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Overview

Blending and Conceptual Integration
Mark Turner
Turner's official page presenting links to blending resources. Brief pseudointroduction. Describes 'blending' in non-specific terms.
HTML. Contains Flash.

Blending Basics
Seana Coulson, Todd Oakley
Blending primer in form of a tutorial.
PDF.

The Way We Think - Encyclopedia
A brief technical introduction.
HTML.

Conceptual Integration Networks
Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
A fuller overview of conceptual blending. Somewhat technical.
HTML.

A Mechanism of Creativity
Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier
Another explanation via example.
HTML.

The Artful Mind
Mark Turner
Illustrations of blending in artworks.
HTML.

Discussion

Conceptual Integration
Gilles Fauconnier
General discussion of CI theory by its developer.
PDF.

Blending in action:Diagrams reveal conceptual integration in routine activity
Beate Schwichtenberg
PDF.

Backstage Cognition in Reason and Choice
Mark Turner
Discusses conceptual blending illustrations and some potential applications.
HTML.

Governing Principles
Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
Technical description of the principles that govern the elements and structures in blending.
PDF.

Mental spaces, language modalities, and conceptual integration
Gilles Fauconnier
An informal tour through meaning construction.
PDF.

Creativity as Projection:Conceptual Integration Networks and Idioms
Todd Oakley
Analyses blending as a framework for explaining creativity.
HTML.

Compression and Global Insight
Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
The vital relation of compression in blending.
HTML.

Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression
Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
Examines the relations between blending and its formal expression.
HTML.

Conceptual integration and metaphor:An event-related potential study
Seana Coulson, Cyma Van Petten
Experiment measuring brain electrical activity while reading literal and metaphorical texts.
PDF.

Fake Guns and Stone Lions: Conceptual Blending and Privative Adjectives
Seana Coulson, Gilles Fauconnier
Compares blending and Sense Generation Model using privative adjectives.
HTML.

Blending and Metaphor
Joseph Grady, Todd Oakley, Seana Coulson
Compares and contrasts blending and conceptual metaphor theory.
HTML.

Categories and Similarities:A Note on Circularity
David Ritchie
Examines the various theories of metaphor comprehension.
PDF.

Semantic Leaps:chapter 1
Seana Coulson
Discussion of the underlying foundation behind blending.
HTML.

Conceptual Integration (4th revision)
Line Brandt
Sketches out a tentative typology for conceptual integration.
PDF.

Knowledge Integration with Conceptual Integration
Francisco Pereira, Amilcar Cardoso
Propose a formal model for blending.
PDF.

Conceptual Blending and the Quest for the Holy Creative Process
Francisco Pereira, Amilcar Cardoso
Computational blending as a favorable framework for elements of computational creativity.
PDF.

Optimality Principles for Conceptual Blending: A First Computational Approach
Francisco Pereira, Amilcar Cardoso
Presents formal computational approach to model blending.
PDF.

Living in a conceptual clash
Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Uses blending to examine conflict between lack of free will and paradigm of responsibility.
PDF.

Application

Conceptual Integration in Online Interdisciplinary Study: Current Perspective, Theories, and Implications for Future Research
James L. Morrison
Examines learning environments in terms of blending.
HTML.

Metaphor, Metonymy, and Binding
Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier
Examines metaphors in terms of blending.
HTML.

Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts: A Hermeneutic Model of Sacred Literature and Everyday Revelation
Vito Evola
Applies Blending Theory to the understanding of religious literature.
HTML.

Conceptual Integration in gesture analysis and transcription. Gesture 4, 197-219.
Fey Parrill, Eve Sweetser
PDF.

Blending As A Central Process of Grammar
Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
Examining grammar in terms of blending.
HTML.

Grammatical Blending:Creative and Schematic Aspects in Sentence Processing and Translation
Nili Mandelblit
PDFs.

Blended spaces and performativity
Eve Sweetser
Uses blending to examine relation between representation and performance.
PDF.

A Computational Approach to Conceptual Blending within Counterfactuals
Mark Lee, John Barnden
PDF.

Assembling Spaces: the Conceptual Structure of Allegory
Michael Sinding
HTML.

Magical rituals and conceptual blending
Gilles Fauconnier
PDF.

What's so funny?: Conceptual integration in humorous examples
Seana Coulson
HTML.

Purple Persuasion: Deliberative Rhetoric and Conceptual Blending
Seana Coulson, Todd Oakley
HTML.

Why does time flow and where does it flow to? The temporal matrix and conceptual blending
Vyvyan Evans
PDF.

Terror Games
Rena Pacella
Popular Science article on a video game character designed as a conceptual blender.
HTML.

Conceptual integration in the domain of music
Finn Holst
PDF.

Blending and Your Bank Account: Conceptual Blending in ATM Design
Barbara Holder
PDF.

Modeling the Semantics of Geographic Categories through Conceptual Integration
Werner Kuhn
PDF.

Metaphors in the Globalization Debate: "Free Trade" or "Corporate Rule"?
Philip Eubanks
PDF.

Creativity as Pastiche
Tony Veale
Cinematic creativity in reused and borrowed ideas.
HTML.

Conventional Models of Time and Their Extensions in Science Fiction
Krystian Aparta
A master's thesis exploring conceptual blending in time travel. Also contains a detailed overview of Conceptual Blending Theory.
PDF.

Miscellanea

Meaning, language, and mind: an interview with Mark Turner
James W. Underhill
Discusses blending.
HTML.

Design for a Theory of Meaning
Mark Turner
Discusses aspects in a quest for a theory of meaning.
HTML.

Introduction to Methods and Generalizations
Gilles Fauconnier
On meaning, language and cognition.
HTML.

Mappings in Thought and Language - conclusion
Gilles Fauconnier
Final chapter of book dealing with meaning construction.
PDF.

Across the Chasm
Con Kenney, Phil Leggiere
This Intelligent Enterprise article discusses benefits of using blending in IT projects.
HTML.

Teaching for Conceptual Integration
A graduate program to enable multidisciplinary teachers in using conceptual integration as a pedagogical device.
HTML.

Books

Creativity and AI: A Conceptual Blending Approach
This book presents a model for the application of the Conceptual Blending framework to the area of Computational Creativity.
HTML.

(more to be added soon)

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