Computation and Blending

Abstract

Recent work into the cognitive foundations of conceptual integration and blended mental \nspaces provides a unifying umbrella framework for a range of cognitive 'siblings' that have \ntraditionally been studied with relative independence, such as metaphor, analogy, concept \ncombination, grammaticalization, counterfactual thought, and abstract problem solving. The \n'many-space' or 'conceptual integration networks' theory of Fauconnier and Turner (1994; 1998) \nis an elaboration of the two-space model of metaphor that has been the corner-stone of the \nmetaphor field since Aristotle (see Hutton, 1982), and which has underpinned a string of \nconceptual theories from Nietzsche (see Culler, 1980) through Richards (1936), Black (1962), \nKoestler (1964) to Lakoff and Johnson (1980). These theories posit a metaphor (or by extension, \nits cognitive siblings) to concern the interaction of two conceptual spaces; the space which is \ndescribed by the metaphor has variously been termed the target, the tenor or the topic, while the \nspace that provides the description has been called the source, the vehicle or the base.

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