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Applications of conceptual blending: Headlines and their implicatures

Shala Barczewska
E-mail: shadanielle@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7896-7025
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
Abstract: One of the claims of cognitive linguistics is that it is able to remove the semantic-pragmatic divide (cf. Evans & Green 2006), and yet the research conducted by in this field is at times criticiz...

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On the marginality of lexical blending

Rita Brdar-Szabó
E-mail: rita.brdar.szabo@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest

Mario Brdar
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Sveučilište u Osijeku
Abstract: In spite of a recent surge of interest in it, blending remains among the most poorly understood and elusive word formation processes. What almost everybody seems to be agreed on is that, although it a...

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Magic tricks with race cards: Conceptual integration theory and political discourse

Sanja Berberović
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: The paper examines the use of creative figurative language in American political discourse. In particular, the paper focuses on the use of the expression to play the race card and the creative figurat...

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THE PRESIDENT AND THE VIPER: POLITICAL SATIRE AND CONCEPTUAL BLENDING THEORY

Sanja Berberović
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
University of Tuzla

Nihada Delibegović Džanić
University of Tuzla
Abstract: Applying conceptual blending theory, the paper analyses the construction of the meaning of a satirical text ridiculing the language employed by politicians to frame the debate on current political and...