Understanding Timelines: Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration

Coulson, Seana; Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal

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Understanding Timelines: Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration

dc.contributor.author	Coulson, Seana
dc.contributor.author	Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal
dc.contributor.department	Filología Inglesa
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-11T08:35:17Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-11T08:35:17Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01-18
dc.description	©2014. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Published, version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Cognitive Semiotics. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem.2013.5.12.198
dc.description.abstract	One of the most broadly investigated topics in the conceptual metaphor literature is the importance of spatial construals for thinking and talking about time. We address the relationship between conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) and conceptual integration theory (CIT) by exploring how people understand timelines – both as graphical objects, in discourse about timelines taken from newspapers and the web, and in poetic examples. The inferential structure of the timeline is well captured by the conceptual metaphors TIME IS SPACE and EVENTS ARE OBJECTS. Instantiated graphically, the timeline serves as a material anchor for a conceptual integration network representing partial cognitive models of time, lines, objects, and a hybrid model known as a ‘blend’. Understood in respect to this network, the analogue properties of the line give it novel computational properties facilitating inferences about the events that the timeline represents. The history of the modern timeline suggests that it reflects a distributed cognitive process, involving multiple individuals over a large span of time and illustrating the importance of cultural evolution in the development of conceptual integration networks. Analysis of both poetry and everyday discourse about timelines suggests that conventional mapping schemas are best viewed not as determining the interpretation of timelines but as providing soft constraints that help guide interpretation. Future metaphor research will best proceed via a merger of techniques from CMT and CIT, characterizing metaphor as involving complex networks of mappings that can be updated flexibly as a function of context and goals.
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dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, V(1-2) 2014: 198-219
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem.2013.5.12.198
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 2235-2066
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/139221
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	De Gruyter Mouton
dc.relation	The European Commission’s Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship ‘The narrative lyric: Conceptual blending of spatial schemata with emotion in poetry and beyond’ (NARLYR: 235129).	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cogsem.2013.5.12.198/html
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Cognitive artifacts
dc.subject	Cognitive semantics
dc.subject	Conceptual blending
dc.subject	Conceptual integration
dc.subject	Material anchors
dc.subject	Metaphor
dc.title	Understanding Timelines: Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration	es
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