Abstracts Readings Mental Spaces and Conceptual Integration   Beijing Lectures Cognitive Construction of Meaning  Gilles Fauconnier _____________________________________________________________________ Readings   Mental Spaces Cognitive Linguistics Mental Spaces Mappings mentalspace.net Conceptual Integration Conceptual Blending Blending Basics Seana Coulson & Todd Oakley Conceptual Integration Networks   blending.stanford.edu Causal Compressions in Language and Thought Compression and Global Insight Causal Compressions Emergent Structure in Conceptual Networks Compression and Emergent Structure Infinity Rafael Nunez Conceptual Integration and Analogy Blended spaces and performativity Eve Sweetser Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Rethinking Metaphor Aymara, where the future is behind you: Convergent evidence from language and gesture in the crosslinguistic comparison of spatial construals of time Rafael Nunez and Eve Sweetser Integration and Grammatical Constructions Blending as a Central Process of Grammar Grammatical blending: creative and schematic aspects in sentence processing and translation Nili Mandelblit Origins of Language   The origin of language as a product of the evolution of modern cognition Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Material Culture and Meaning Construction Material Anchors for Conceptual Blends Edwin Hutchins Making Meaning from a Clock Robert Williams Things   The Way We Think - Chapter 10 Generalized Integration Networks Generalized Integration Networks Methods and Generalizations in Linguistics Methods and Generalizations WWT:  Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. 2003.  The Way We Think.  Basic Books.                         Continue   Contact: Gilles Fauconnier