Cognitive Semantics Working Group

We will meet this quarter on Monday in CSB 280 from noon - 1pm.

Spring Quarter 2010


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 Blending
Vega Moreno, Rosa E. 2007. /Creativity and Convention: The
Pragmatics of Everyday Figurative Speech/. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. pp. 79-81. DOC

Sperber & Wilson. 2008. A Deflationary Account of Metaphor.
In Gibbs, R. (ed.) /The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought/.
Cambridge: CUP. PDF

Tendahl, M. & Gibbs, R. W. 2008. Complementary perspectives
on metaphor. Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory. Journal of
Pragmatics 40 (2008) 1823--1864. PDF
Week 4
(4/19)
Seana & Cristobal
Snakes, Time, and Integration: Implications for Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Week 5
(4/26)


Week 6
(5/3)


Week 7
(5/10)


Week 8
(5/17)


Week 9
(5/24)


Week 10
(5/31)



Winter Quarter 2010


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)




Fall Quarter 2009

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
Week 2 (10/8)
Cristobal Canovas
The Arrows of Love: Cultural Genesis and Conceptual Integration  SLIDES
Week 3 (10/15)
Kensy Cooperrider
Discussion of Levinson & Burenholt (2009) "Semplates: A new concept in lexical semantics" PDF
Week 4 (10/22)
Seana Coulson Discussion of Goldberg "The Nature of Generalization in Language" PDF
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
Week 6 (11/5)
Mark Turner
Workshop on Blending Box Experiments
Week 7 (11/12)
Rick Grush
This and That
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
Week 9 (11/26)
Hiatus Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 10 (12/3)
Gilles Fauconnier
The Dark Matter of Semantics PDF

Spring Quarter 2006

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

Week 10 (6/9)
Amy Cook




Fall Quarter 2005

Week 1 (9/30)

Discussion of emergent structure led by Gilles Fauconnier
Readings
Fauconnier05   Fauconnier, Gilles. 2005, in press. Compression and Emergent Structure. Language and Linguistics.
Coulson and Pascual   Coulson, S. & Pascual, E. 2005, submitted. For the sake of argument: Mourning the unborn and reviving the dead through conceptual blending.
(both papers in PDF format)

Week 2 (10/7)

Geert Brone on Hyperunderstanding and Misunderstanding
Brone.pdf  Brone, G. 2005, submitted. Hyper- and misunderstanding in interactional humor. (Because this paper is longish, Geert recommends we focus on sections 1 and 2.)

coulson-sarc.pdf Coulson, S. 2005. Sarcasm and the space structuring model. In S. Coulson & B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Eds.), The Literal and the Nonliteral in Language and Thought. Berlin: Lang.

Week 3 (10/14)

Amy Cook on blending in theater
Cook.pdf "Staging Nothing: Conceptual blending theory and the theatricalized substance of nothing in Shakespeare's Hamlet"

Week 4 (10/21)

Weishen Yu on Chinese grammar and integration BAConstruction.pdf

Week 5 (10/28)

Seana Coulson on "Blending in Discourse"

Week 6 (11/4)

Fox Harrell on "The GRIOT system, Computational Narrative Text Generation, and Blending"

Goguen, Joseph A. & Harrell, D. Fox. (2004). Style as a Choice of Blending Principles. Presented at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Symposium. (see sections 2 & 3) PDF

Harrell, D. Fox. (2005). Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation. For the Digital Arts and Culture Conference 2005 to be held November 30-December 4. 

Week 7 (11/11)

Veteran's Day (University Holiday)

Week 8 (11/18)

Craig Hamilton (UC Irvine) on literary blending

Hamilton, C. (2003). Genetic roulette: On the cognitive rhetoric of biorisk. In Rene Dirven, Roslyn Frank, & Martin Putz (Eds.), Cognitive Models in Language and Thought. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 353-393. PDF 

Hamilton, C. (2003). The world was a confusion. The Undying Fire: The H.G. Wells Journal of the Americas 2: 28-36. PDF 

Week 9 (11/25)

Thanksgiving (University Holiday)

Week 10 (12/2)

Shweta Narayan on the integration of linguistic and visual information in comics
Some of Shweta's data can be viewed HERE (just click on each png file to view it)