The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language will take place at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) on 18-20 October, 2008.
CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition.
The theme of CSDL 9 […]
Mark Turner has a thorough and frequently updated bibliography on blending/conceptual integration.
Blending & Conceptual Integration
The fantastic OmniGraffle by Omni Software is an excellent tool for diagrams of any kind. I’ve put together an OmniGraffle stencil for constructing MST-based diagrams and it’s available for download at GraffleTopia.
I’ll be updating this with representations for other features, such as aspect and temporality, and whatever else seems interesting, like conceptual integration diagrams. Email […]
Brandt, Line
October, 2000
This piece was a chapter of Brandt’s Thesis at Roskilde University. It covers expansions of and ‘philosophical differences’ with the Mental Spaces theory as defined by Fauconnier et al. Most particularly, she expands the model to deal with longer narratives.
She has particular and frequently voiced criticism for what she considers the failures of […]