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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Conceptual blending"”.
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Music and the English Lyric Poem: Explporations in Conceptual Blending
Music and The English Lyric Poem: Explorations in Conceptual Blending Although lyrics are addressed primarily to the ear, the development of lyric poetry, that is of 'lyrical' poetry that is not necessarily meant to be sung , is partly the consequence of the rise of print communication and tends to …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… by combining a historical approach with conceptual metaphor theory. The dissertation first evaluates the esoteric appropriation historically as a type of religious response to Darwin. It works backwards from the twentieth-century counterculture (as identified by Theodore Roszak in 1975), …
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Reconciling narrative spaces : conceptual blending in Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Calvino's Invisible Cities
… linguists Fauconnier and Turner's theory of conceptual blending to analyze two very different pieces of literature, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the former a children's story and the latter a postmodern experimental work of fiction. While …
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From inputs to outputs: an investigation of process in sound art practice
… from and extended concepts from the model of conceptual blending, a theory of cognition developed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner in The way we think: conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities (2002).1 Through the notion of inputs, which are blended through process into …
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Explaining “explaining” : a phenomenological study of meaning making
… explaining”. A review of literature wove conceptual blending theory, encoding/decoding, and conceptual metaphor theory together as a framework from which to research this phenomenon. Using an interpretivist stance to research and phenomenology as the methodological design, data was …
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Integrated instructional programming models for development of 21st century education core competencies
… into component pedagogies and IPMs promotes conceptual blending to meet the evolving needs of learning communities and to increase resilience within a dynamic 21st-century educational system.
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The bones of the book: schematic structure and meaning made from books.
… were treated as data and analysed using a conceptual framework developed by Talmy (2000) and through the diagramming of conceptual integration networks (Fauconnier and Turner 2002; Turner 2014). Additional evidence was sought through the identification of conventional and conceptual …
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Posthuman Creative Styling can a creative writer’s style of writing be described as procedural?
… The thesis uses practice to inform an original conceptual space model, based on quality dimensions and dynamic-inter operation of spaces. This model gives an example of the procedures which a posthuman creative writer uses when engaged in creative styling. It suggests an original formulation for …
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Oceanic languages: A comparative investigation of pre-clausal constructions
… being developed with recourse to the models of Conceptual Blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003) and the Greater Attentional System (Oakley 2004, 2009), as well as the typology of conceptual blends proposed by Brandt (2013:415–422). Accordingly, it is argued that PRE …
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Seeing the World through Tearful Eyes: Similes in Job’s Laments
… approach—an adaptation of the Conceptual Blending model—that I have developed to analyse the similes in Job’s laments. After laying the groundwork by exploring the literary form of lament and categorising the selected similes, the second part of the thesis delves into an …
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Aqui a natureza é a estrela : mesclagem conceptual e redes de espaços mentais na campanha Hollywood da Hortifruti
… a criatividade e o imaginário presentes na conceptualização da publicidade por meio das metáforas dos anúncios impressos da campanha publicitária Hollywood, da marca Hortifruti, sob o processo de mesclagem conceptual. O seu foco está nas metáforas verbo-pictóricas enquanto um recurso …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …