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...

Abstract: Klasifikatori u znakovnim jezicima imaju status jezične univerzalije i predstavljaju produktivne konstrukcije kojima se opisuju različiti aspekti referenta i njihova odnosa s drugim elementima scenari...

Abstract: The paper represents an attempt to reveal the internal choreography of idiom modification. It is argued that modified idiomatic expressions can be explained using the postulates of the Conceptual Inte...

Abstract: In recent years, Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier have popularized the theory of blending (or conceptual integration) as a widespread cognitive mechanism which applies over many areas of conceptualiz...

Abstract: In the light of the automatic nature of the process of conceptual integration we examine the cognitive-conceptual status of the four types of mental spaces and their elements: the input spaces, the ge...

Abstract: The paper addresses the applicability of conceptual integration theory in the study of political cartoons, actually the role of modified idiomatic expressions in the process of cartoon appreciation. I...

Abstract: Ovaj članak bavi se prirodom odnosa teorije konceptualne metafore i teorije konceptualne integracije, dviju naizgled konkurentskih teorija nastalih u okvirima kognitivne lingvistike. Pritom se pokušav...