Extemporaneous Blending: Conceptual Integration in Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio

Cognitive Science professor Seana Coulson writes in 2005: * When speakers produce language, listeners use that linguistic input along with background and contextual knowledge to set up simple cognitive models in mental spaces (Coulson, Semantic Leaps). Similarly, when people look … Continue reading Extemporaneous Blending: Conceptual Integration in Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio