Definition
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Mental space are small conceptual packets constructed as we think and talk, for purpose of local understanding and action...they operate in working memory but are built up partly by activating structures available from longterm memory. (Fauconnier and Turner, 2001:40,102)
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Composition is always involved when conceptual content from two or more mental spaces is fused in the blended space. Completion is required to understand the blend one situation described. Elaboration is envisaged in a highly dynamic fashion, i.e. in terms of 'simulating' or 'running' the blend. The most important is that elaboration can is in principle open-ended and will vary among readers
Conceptual Blending Theory
1. Conceptual blending
1.1 Definition of conceptual blending 1.2 Durther dimensions of compression: space, time, cause-effect and part-whole. 1.3 Governing rules of blending and entrenchment
the arm.... newsweek, December 27. 2005
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a shot in the arm suggests the metapher
+ ECONOMICAL WELL- BEING IS HEALTHed by a cause-effect metonymy : + SHOT (=INJECTION) STANDS FOR HEALTH. This metapher is interpreted within the mapping scope rooted in the basic experience of what is good (i.e. feeling healthy) or bad (i.e.feeling ill).
Definition
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In conceptual blending theory, elements from different mental spaces are aligned with one another as well as selectively projected to a blended space, yielding emergent meaning (Fauconnier & Turner, 1998).
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Compression is in fact the ultimate goal of the whole blending process. The crucial effect of compression is that the conceptual complexity of the inputs from several sources is reduced considerably. A newly intergrated and unified conceptual structure emerges that is cognitively manageable and thus has, as Fauconnier and Turner (2002:312) put it, "human scale".
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There is an assumption that reading the material, readers construct a mental space containing, among the things the information that Volkswagen has hired a new director. It is a "hiring space". Along with it there is another mental space: "injection space".
Definition
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Conceptual blending theory is predicated on the existence of different mental spaces, each comprising a set of interrelated elements that can be activated as a unit.(Michael Kiang, 2005:13)
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1.2 Further dimensions of compression: space, time, cause-effect and part-whole
a. Spatial compression b. Compression along the time dimension c. Cause- effect d. Part- whole
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According to the conceptual-blending theory, these two mental spaces( the hiring and the injection space,which are called input spaces) are brought together and intergrated, or blended. The result of this cognitive operation is a new blended space containing information projected from both input spaces.
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fire warm / disaster autumn harvest sea wave
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概念是人认识世界的产物，是对事物本质 的反映，是对一类事物进行概括的符号表征 （赵艳芳，2001:81） 概念是人类对客观世界体验的、凝练的表 达，心智的体验加工是概念的终端产品，概 念被视为认知科学的中心（Robert A. Wilson, Frank C. Keil,2000:177）。 概念是经验的一个组成部分，所有的经验 都是概念性的，是已经验的概念（[法] 马 克·弗罗芒·莫里斯）。
Mental Space
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VW's Pickup Man Wolfgang Bernhard: Taking on a troubled brand He won't start his job until February-and Wolfgang Bernhard has already earned his future employer, German auto giant Volkswagen, many times his salary. When, in Octiber, VW announced the 44-year-old turnaround specilalist would become the No. 2 under CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder, investors celebrated by raising VW's market cap €1 billion in a single day. Volkswagen obviously needs a shot in
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Without any warning an American-type tornado hit the sleepy French village of Chatelles-Bains a trail of destruction behind. There are two locations: Ameria and French. It is clearly that people's spatial separation must be overcome for the message to make sense. This is why the two input spaces are compressed to overcome their spatial separation.

2. Conceptual blending in linguistic and analysis and description
2.1 Conceptual blending and morphological blends 2.2 Compounds and acronyms as conceptual blends 2.3 Conceptual blending, event structure and constructions
Processes of blended space