Date |
Discussion Leader |
Readings/Topic |
Week 2 (4/5) |
Seana Coulson | Dueling Cartoons |
Week 3 (4/12) |
Cristobal Pagan Canovas |
Discussion of Relevance Theory
and Conceptual BlendingVega Moreno, Rosa E. 2007. /Creativity and Convention: The |
Week 4 (4/19) |
Seana & Cristobal |
Snakes, Time, and Integration:
Implications for Conceptual Metaphor Theory |
Week 5 (4/26) |
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Week 6 (5/3) |
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Week 7 (5/10) |
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Week 8 (5/17) |
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Week 9 (5/24) |
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Week 10 (5/31) |
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Date |
Discussion Leader |
Readings/Topic |
Week 2 (1/13) |
Cristobal Pagan Canovas |
The Narrative Lyric: Conceptual
Integration, Embodied Cognition, Styles, and Diachrony in the Poetics
of Emotion PDF |
Week 3 (1/20) |
James Alexander |
Conceptual Blending and
Mathematics PDF |
Week 4 (1/27) |
Seana Coulson |
Blending in the Brain: Thoughts
on the Compatibility of Mental Space Theory, Conceptual Integration
Theory, & Cognitive Neuroscience |
Week 5 (2/3) |
Ed Hutchins |
Enaction, Imagination, and
Insight PDF |
Week 6 (2/10) |
Morana Alac |
Scientific Gestures: Fictivity
in Scientific Discourse Related Paper |
Week 7 (2/17) |
Jean Mandler |
Mandler, J. (in press). The
spatial
foundations of the conceptual system. Language
and Cognition 2. PDF |
Week 8 (2/24) |
No
Meeting |
Judea Pearl - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 2:00PM - 3:00PM in CSE 1202 "Causes and Counterfactuals in the Empirical Sciences" |
Week 9 (3/3) |
Ben Bergen |
New Stuff in the
Language and Cognition Lab |
Week 10 (3/10) |
Mark Turner | The Cognitive Science of Surfing: The Embodied Mind and the Spark of Human Culture |
Finals Week (optional) |
Date |
Discussion
Leader |
Readings/Topic |
|
Week 1 (10/1) |
Seana Coulson |
Conceptual Integration in
Multi-Modal Discourse Comprehension: ERP Studies of Iconic Co-Speech
Gestures SLIDES |
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Week 2 (10/8) |
Cristobal
Canovas |
The
Arrows of Love: Cultural Genesis and Conceptual Integration SLIDES |
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Week 3 (10/15) |
Kensy
Cooperrider |
Discussion
of Levinson & Burenholt (2009) "Semplates: A new concept in lexical
semantics" PDF |
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Week 4 (10/22) |
Seana Coulson | Discussion of Goldberg "The
Nature of Generalization in Language" PDF |
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Week 5 (10/29) |
Cristobal Canovas | Discussion of the compatibility
of conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual integration theory. As a
springboard for this discussion, we will use recent chapters by Lakoff and by Fauconnier & Turner in Gibbs
(2008) edited volume Metaphor and
Thought |
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Week 6 (11/5) |
Mark Turner |
Workshop on Blending Box
Experiments |
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Week 7 (11/12) |
Rick Grush |
This and That |
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Week 8 (11/19) |
Rafael Nunez |
Discussion of "Ego perspective
and field-based frames of reference: Temporal meanings of FRONT in
Japanese, Wolof, and Aymara" by Kevin Moore PDF |
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Week 9 (11/26) |
Hiatus | Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 10 (12/3) |
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The Dark Matter of Semantics PDF |
Date |
Discussion
Leader |
Readings/Topic |
Week 3 (4/21) |
Seana Coulson |
Conceptual Integration in
Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio PDF |
Week 4 (4/28) |
Gilles
Fauconnier |
Rethinking Metaphor PDF |
Week 5 (5/5) |
Fox Harrell |
Narrative Structure and Poetry
Generation SLIDES |
Week 6 (5/12) |
Hiatus | (no meeting) |
Week 7 (5/19) |
Rafael Nunez |
Blending Around: Questions about
conceptual integration |
Week 8 (5/26) |
Shweta Narayan | |
Week 9 (6/2) |
Ron Langacker |
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Week 10 (6/9) |
Amy Cook | |