Semantics and Cognition
An interview with Gilles Fauconnier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3956469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gilles Fauconnier (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Maria Lúcia Leitão De Almeida (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Jorge Luiz Ferreira Lisboa Júnior (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 198-228 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Diadorim (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1980-2552 • E-ISSN: 2675-1216 |
| Publisher | Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Letras Vernaculas - PPGLEV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.35520/diadorim.2020.v22n2a38222 |
| OpenAlex | W3120339332 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Gilles Fauconnier is a linguist and cognitive scientist internationally known for his work on the theory of Mental Spaces and on the theory of Conceptual Integration or “Blending”, in partnership with Mark Turner. His contribution to Cognitive Semantics in particular and Semantic Theory in general is invaluable. The theory of mental spaces allows refined treatment to a series of semantic phenomena that have always challenged semanticists such as referential opacity, conditionality, counterfactuality, presuppositional projection, among others. The theory of conceptual blending also enables the advanced treatment of the complex cognitive construction of the linguistic meaning underspecified in grammatical constructions, which offer clues or means of activating the cognitive process of blending, as the XYZ grammatical construction prototypically illustrates. Another central topic concerns the relationship between the semantic-cognitive processes of blending, metaphor and metonymy, their typological limits and their intersections. Consequently, the high explanatory power of blending invites us to reflect on its centrality in cognition and grammar for the construction of linguistic meaning, as well as on its economy, which includes its restrictions
Cognition · Cognitive grammar · Cognitive linguistics · Cognitive science · Cognitive semantics · Conceptual Blending · Conceptual metaphor · Grammar · Linguistics · Metaphor · Metaphor and metonymy · Metonymy · Principle of compositionality · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Mappings in Thought and Language
Metaphoric structuring
Logic and Conversation
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Body in the Mind
Much more than money
Schemas, grounds, meaning
Making good psychology out of blending theory
The definite article, accessibility, and the construction of discourse referents
The Paintings of Yun Hyong-Keun as ‘Emergent Blended Structures’
Mental spaces
Mental Spaces
The True and the False
Words and the Grammar of Context
Blending in mathematics
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |