Creative Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann PAPERBACK 9781009635271

Name: Creative Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann PAPERBACK 9781009635271
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Creative Construction GrammarAuthor(s): Thomas Hoffmann, Mark Turner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009635271, 978-1009635271\nSynopsis\nConstructions are long-term pairings in memory of form and meaning. How are they created and learned, how do they change, and how do they combine into new utterances (constructs, communicative performances) in working memory? Drawing on evidence from word-formation (blending, Noun-Noun-compounds) over idioms and argument structure constructions to multimodal communication, we argue that computational metaphors such as 'unification' or 'constraint-satisfaction' do not constitute a cognitively adequate explanation. Instead, we put forward the idea that construction combination is performed by Conceptual Blending a domain-general process of higher cognition that has been used to explain complex human behavior such as, inter alia, scientific discovery, reasoni.