[lit-ideas] Blending
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:52:39 EDT
Eric Yost quotes from M. Turner and G. Fauconnier, _The way we think:
conceptual blending and the mind's hidden complexities_ (grand title, the 'we'
in
the title is meant to mean "humanity", not just Turner and Fauconnier -- and
"the mind" is that of _each_ member of humanity, not that 'we' share one. The
basic idea is that of 'blend').
Yost comments:
>To say that form detracts from content is nonsense, in my opinion.
Another problem is that Turner and Fauconnier want, legitimately, to create
an approach that would _include_ *both* figurative and _non-figurative_ ways
of thinking. This they do from a historical perspective, noting that the
earlier uses of the word 'figura' (schema in Greek) would be willing to apply
those terms to _literal_ expressions (like "the sun is shining").
When you say "you are the sunshine in my life", you've created a blend -- a
non-literal figure (as opposed to 'sunshine' in "I hope there's a bit of
sunshine on Saturday").
I agree with Yost that writers may not proceed to _write_ as Turner and
Fauconnier indicate they do.
Cheers,
JL
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