A course in Cognitive Linguistics: Conceptual integration

This is the sixth episode of a course in Cognitive Linguistics. This episode turns to the topic of conceptual integration. Several concepts are central to the idea of conceptual integration, among them input spaces, vital relations, projection into a blend, and emergent structure. All of these are discussed one by one, the video ends with a brief discussion of the differences between conceptual integration and conceptual metaphor.

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For the opening question, I drew a two lines in a diagram where x axis=time and y axis = distance to summit. Assuming (secretly) that time and space are continuous, the two lines would be continuous, therefore they must have at least one intersection point.

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I have to give a class about mental spaces and conceptual blending next week, and this video really helped me to understand the topic better ! Thank you !

[@MartinHilpert]

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[@alirasul9539]

Everything is the result of blending or integration in our life as humans on Earth.

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[@mike64424]

thanks for the great video. I've got a question to ask. what is the difference between the second and the third differences between CMT and CI? aren't these two the same?

[@marysusansusan]

Is "That guitar player is a beast" an example of an emergent structure? What about when you say someone destroyed something but in a good way?

[@kimebensgaard5936]

Thanks for another great eLecture :-) Another aspect of grammar where blending occurs, at least according to Talmy is in semantic conflict-resolution (such as conflict between, say, a construction and a lexeme). Here, Talmy suggests a process that he calls blending as a resolution strategy, in which a semantic hybrid is created from selecting and combining semantic features of the conflicting elements. As far as I remember, Talmy does not refer to Turner & Fauconnier, but what he calls blending sounds a lot like a type of conceptual integration. Also, in case people are interested, here's an article by Carl Bache that suggests some modifications to conceptual integration theory: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216605000615 (you need to access it from a library that subscribes to the journal in which it is published).

[@MartinHilpert]

Kim Ebensgaard Thanks for that pointer, you're absolutely right! (I made a note for the written-up version that will hopefully see the light of day one day...)

[@kimebensgaard5936]

Martin Hilpert I look forward to reading it :-) I think there's a chapter by Michael Barlow on blending in grammar in Barlow/Kemmer's anthology on usage-based models of language from 2000.

[@marysusansusan]

Hi Martin. Is it an example of conceptual blending when society talks about famous individuals who have passed? For example, "Jimi Hendrix would be smiling down upon you right now (in regards to someone playing his song really well)", or even "Jimi IS smiling down upon you right now", or "Elvis would be rolling over in his grave right now/is rolling over in his grave". Are these examples?

[@teachergoran]

Yes, they are. There is an example of blending going smth like: " I was debating Kant all night" meaning the speaker was reading Kant and thinking about his writings. One space is present time, another one is the past and the blend is our understanding of what this means, how we see the sentence.

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Liu Jiehai Thanks for watching!

[@garygallagher7341]

Great video. I wonder what the popularity of memes can teach us about blending or metaphor.

[@on_my_own_two_feet]

I think your brother-still-alive explanation is a bit off because as you put it there is no difference between the second input space and the blend itself: both have a real ego and a hypothetical brother. Shouldn't it be 1) present-day ego + 2) past experience of the ego together with the brother = a blend of the present day ego and the late brother carried into the present. You know what I mean?

[@joelthomastr]

30:08 "Bill's girlfriends are getting younger and younger" Nobody: Linguists: If you look at the sequence of girlfriends that Bill is dating, age seems to be negatively correlated with the rank in the sequence 😂🤣 Never change