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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Metaphor As Conceptual
Blending Gilles Fauconnier's theory of mental spaces constitutes a natural generalization of
metaphor, in which the number of conceptual spaces that blend is only two: the
one described by the metaphor (the "tenor") and the one which
provides the description (the "vehicle"). Fauconnieradds two more spaces to deal
with metaphors: the "generic" space, which represents all the shared
concepts that are required by tenor and vehicle, which are necessary not only
to understand the metaphor but to mediate between the tenor and the vehicle;
and the "blend" space, which contains the solution, the concept
generated by the metaphor. The tenor and the vehicle are reconciled thanks to
the generic space and this reconciliation produces the blend space. Back to the beginning of the chapter "Metaphor: How We Speak" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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