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	BLENDING AND CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION
		"Conceptual Blending and Metaphor." In Metaphor in cognitive linguistics, edited by Steen, G., & Gibbs, R. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
		"Conceptual blending, narrative discourse, and rhetoric." Cognitive Linguistics, 9-: 321-360.
		"Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression." Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10:3, 183-203.
	www.markturner.org /blending.html (3292 words)

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		Clearly, there is a conceptual construction that integrates structure from both the generic frame of a tunnel and the knowledge frame of the body of water between England and France.
		This integration of content has as a corresponding grammatical form "the tunnel under the English Channel." This is already a tightly integrated form, relying upon generic conceptions of "under," and the unit status of a grammatical complex noun phrase.
		In general, we will find that the conceptual integration is detailed and intricate, while the formal integration gives only the briefest indication of a starting point from which the hearer is to depart in constructing this conceptual integration.
	philosophy.uoregon.edu /metaphor/turner.htm (7972 words)

	Conceptual blending - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conceptual Blending (aka Conceptual Integration) is a theory of cognition
		According to this theory, elements and vital relations from diverse scenarios are "blended" in a subconscious process known as Conceptual Blending, which is assumed to be ubiquitous to everyday thought and language.
		The Theory of Conceptual Blending was developed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conceptual_blending (269 words)

	Africa Knowledge Networks Forum (AKNF)
		Conceptual clarity refers to a range of issues that deal with the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of regional economic integration including a full account of its costs and benefits.
		Regional integration is also expected to reduce vulnerability to external shocks induced by fluctuations, instability, and uncertainty in the rest of the world.Though the specific requirements vary on the type of economic unity established (as noted above), regional integration as a process involves the merging of industrial structures, economic and administrative policies of member countries.
		Conceptual clarity refers to a range of issues that deal with the theoretical and empirical underpinning of regional integration issues which may include a full account of its costs and benefits.
	www.uneca.org /aknf/pub/regionalint1.htm (7797 words)

	Metaphors of Conceptual Integration
		Conceptual Integration Theory (Fauconnier and Turner, 1998; 2002) is re-examined in the light of recent criticisms (e.g., Gibbs, 2000; 2001).
		Compare this act of conceptual integration with the act that occurs when an object is described: “The gun is fl” connects the perceptual concept, “fl,” with the object concept, “gun.” There is no reason to suppose that the concepts, “fl” and “gun,” need to have any elements in common as a basis for integrating them.
		Conceptual Integration Theory (Fauconnier and Turner, 1998; 2002) provides a potentially powerful model for explaining a wide range of cognitive processes that build connections among different sorts of ideas – such as a monk climbing up a mountain, the same monk descending a mountain, and two lines on a graph.
	web.pdx.edu /~cgrd/Metaphors%20of%20Conceptual%20Integration.html (6568 words)

	ECSU School of Education and Professional Studies NCATE Conceptual Framework
		Revisions of the departmental goals and the conceptual framework are discussed among the Unit faculty members on a regular basis and every member of the Unit is encouraged to provide input on how the conceptual framework should develop and what it should emphasize.
		The core theme of the Unit philosophy and conceptual framework is constructivist learner-centered epistemology with emphasis on inquiry, reflection, and collaboration (Anderson and Piazza, 1996; Appleton and Asoko, 1996; Brooks and Brooks, 1993, 1999; Dinkelman, 2003; Fullan, 1993a, 1993b; Gruenberg and Fortunato, 2002; Koirala, 2002; Schwandt, 1994; Trawick-Smith 2000, 2001; Windschitl, 2002).
		The conceptual framework, which is shown in Figure 1, focuses on the preparation of educators who are reflective, analytical, enthusiastic, and caring about the welfare and education of all children.
	www.easternct.edu /depts/seps/NCATE/conceptual_framework/index.htm (2125 words)

	English Faculty- University of Maryland - Department of English - University of Maryland
		Since conceptual integration has uniform structural and dynamic properties, it is important to reveal this uniformity behind the appearance of observational and functional diversity.
		Conceptual blending is not a compositional algorithmic process and cannot be modeled as such for even the most rudimentary cases.
		The integration of events in the blend is indexed to events in both of the input spaces.
	www.english.umd.edu /englfac/MTurner/cin.web/cin.html (8603 words)

	Metonymy and Conceptual Blending
		That is to say, conceptual integration in this blend works optimally only if the representations can be compressed into one tightly integrated form.
		In the blend, the precise allegorical interpretation of the four horsemen is not important, and the metonymic relationship between color and symbolized evil (i.e., the coupling of "red" with "war") obtaining in the Apocalypse space is incidental in the blended space.
		Although the statue involves integration of conceptual structure from the apocalypse space with that in the Axis Powers space, three of the four horses from the apocalypse input are omitted from the blended space.
	cogsci.ucsd.edu /~coulson/metonymy-new.htm (6931 words)

	Conceptual Diagrams - Integration and Application Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Conceptual diagrams are an effective tool to communicate complex messages in a simple and informative manner.
		Conceptual diagrams can be used in a variety of publications including presentations, posters, science communication publications and peer reviewed scientific papers (color or bandw).
		Throughout the paper conceptual diagrams (using the IAN Symbol Libraries) are used to detail the natural and anthropogenic processes controlling seagrass distribution.
	ian.umces.edu /conceptualdiagrams_page.php (778 words)

	Distributed Integration Approach to Learning
		My own algebraic formalization of conceptual integration, using also some ideas from semiotics, plays a role here, as does my experience applying these ideas, along with ANT and ethnomethodology, to the design of computer-based systems, particularly user interfaces, and requirements analysis for systems that must function in complex social environments.
		Among points emphasized in BT are that integration is unconscious, nearly instantaneous, and often involves emergent structure in the blend space; BT speaks of "recruiting" additional material in the form of new conceptual spaces, from other domains that may at first appear to be only distantly related to the original spaces.
		BT conceptual spaces are theories in the technical sense of formal logic, consisting of declared constants and relations, plus axioms consisting of ground instances of relations.
	www.cs.ucsd.edu /users/goguen/papers/learn.html (2451 words)

	Integration
		These tools are thus considered to be integrated into the learning experience to enable students to have a better understanding of the concept.
		All of the different types of integration are really different types of curriculum integration, from a simple one-subject form of integration (as in the above example) to a variety of subjects organized around a common concept.
		These conceptual units take a single or closely connected concepts and employ carefully crafted activities, each of which extends the same concept (or related concepts).
	uregina.ca /~maeers/integration/typeswhatis.html (1115 words)

	Enacting processes of conceptual integration in fMRI brain mapping practice
		Conceptual integration theory has been almost exclusively interested in conceptual spaces internal to the mind of a single individual.
		Hutchins (in press) analyses conceptual integration networks where one input space is a conceptual space in the usual sense, while the other one has the structure of a physical object or event.
		The enactment of the integrated and imaginary conceptual structure is achieved by the placement of the gesture at the border between the digital image and the physical space of action.
	webhost.ua.ac.be /tisp/viewpaper.php?id=327&print=1 (364 words)

	New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Conceptual projection is involved in the making of meaning in context and a driving force behind semantic change.
		The notions of mappings and projections of conceptual structure are pivotal to the cognitive linguistics enterprise.
		We claim that the conceptual structure that occurs in conceptual projection in the context of linguistic behaviour — what we call ‘imagining for speaking’ — is organised around linguistically encoded ‘meanings’, which we refer to as ‘lexical concepts’.
	www.cogling.org.uk /NDCL/ThemeConceptualProjection.htm (1696 words)

	Frame blends
		A canonical integration network consists of two input spaces, each of which represents a cognitive model that contributes to the blend, an optional generic space that represents abstract commonalities in the inputs, and the blended space that has some structure from each of the inputs as well as novel emergent structure.
		Conceptual blending processes proceed via the establishment and exploitation of mappings, the activation of background knowledge, and frequently involve the use of mental imagery and mental simulation.
		In fact, it was suggested that the humorous conceptualizations that occur in the course of extemporaneous blending are, in part, shaped by the demands of conversational interaction as speakers attempt to blend “appropriately inappropriate” novel structure with contextually evoked concepts.
	www-cse.ucsd.edu /users/goguen/courses/coulson.doc (6508 words)

	BLENDING AND CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION
		The theory of conceptual blending has been applied by scores of researchers, in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, music theory, poetics, mathematics, divinity, semiotics, theory of art, psychotherapy, artificial intelligence, political science, discourse analysis, philosophy, anthropology, and the study of gesture and of material culture.
		"Conceptual Blending and Metaphor." In Metaphor in cognitive linguistics, edited by Steen, G., and Gibbs, R. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
		This article demonstrates how the slaves were able to achieve a high level of conceptual freedom and spiritual self-determination in the spirituals as a liberating response to the constraints of their existence through the use of creative blends.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/tyleran/Blending%20and%20Conceptual%20Integration.htm (2629 words)

	Extemporaneous blending: conceptual integration in humorous discourse from talk radio Style - Find Articles
		Below I provide a brief introduction to conceptual integration theory, describe its application to humorous interaction between two hosts on a radio call-in show, and consider how people exploit the creative process of meaning construction in conversational interactions.
		Among the basic concepts in conceptual integration theory are mental spaces, frames, or cultural models, and mappings.
		Since a mental space is used to represent certain aspects of conceptual structure from a particular domain that is relevant to the ongoing discourse context, to understand the barnyard cartoon, we set up one mental space to represent relevant aspects of the barnyard domain and another to represent those of the restaurant domain.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_2_39/ai_n16485883 (966 words)

	Issues with the DIM Hypothesis -- #1 Integration or Identification? - THE FORUM for Ayn Rand Fans
		Integration as the essence of human cognition from start to finish." In Lecture 2 (Part 1 27:53) he stated, "Integration is the essence of human cognition.
		While it is true that integration is a crucial and fundamental part of the cognitive process, it is not the essence of human cognition, nor the basic activity of a conceptual consciousness, nor all of cognition "from start to finish" -- at least, not according to my understanding of cognition and of Ayn Rand.
		If integration is not the essential function of consciousness, purpose of epistemology, or basis of knowledge, this has a major impact on the validity and the applicability of the DIM Hypothesis.
	forums.4aynrandfans.com /index.php?s=&showtopic=5430&view=findpost&p=47204 (3960 words)

	AIED Invited talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To achieve conceptual integration we need to have some central student model which should collect and integrate the information about the student from all system components.
		Conceptual integration implies that the results of students' work with any of the components during a session should be taken into account by other components to adapt their performance to the changed knowledge level of the particular student.
		Our approach to conceptual integration is to have a single representation of the student's knowledge in the central student model.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /~peterb/papers/AIED-95.html (5063 words)

	Integration and the Christian Scholar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In conceptual integration, one’s theological beliefs, especially those derived from careful biblical exegesis are blended and unified with propositions judged to be justifiably believed as true from other sources into a coherent, intellectually satisfying world view.
		One of the goals of integration is to maintain or increase both the conceptual relevance of and epistemological justification for Christian theism.
		The philosophical external conceptual problem may not be sufficient to require abandonment or suspension of judgment of the theory in the other discipline; it may merely tend to count against it.
	www.leaderu.com /aip/docs/moreland2b.html (6266 words)

	Extemporaneous blending: conceptual integration in humorous discourse from talk radio Style - Find Articles
		Below I provide a brief introduction to conceptual integration theory, describe its application to humorous interaction between two hosts on a radio call-in show, and consider how people exploit the creative process of meaning construction in conversational interactions.
		Among the basic concepts in conceptual integration theory are mental spaces, frames, or cultural models, and mappings.
		Since a mental space is used to represent certain aspects of conceptual structure from a particular domain that is relevant to the ongoing discourse context, to understand the barnyard cartoon, we set up one mental space to represent relevant aspects of the barnyard domain and another to represent those of the restaurant domain.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_2_39/ai_n16485883 (966 words)

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		A data integration system defines set of mappings of local schemas to the global schema, reformulates global schema queries to local schemas queries, executes the latter, and combines results to the result of the initial query.
		Present conceptual modeling approaches can be used by specialists only because of great quantity of special constructions with special meaning: inheritance, objectification, attribute-entity difference, etc. This problem becomes stronger if we use a conceptual model not only for knowledge representation, but as an access interface for a distributed and heterogeneous information system.
		To integrate several separate information systems to one it is necessary to fulfill additional complex project (integration project) by skilled IT specialists that are familiar with the current implementation of the information systems.
	www.inconcept.com /JCM/September2004/Ovchinnikov.html (9014 words)

	Patterns of Conceptual Integration
		It was therefore appropriate to collect examples of integrated multi-set concept schemes of the most diverse nature and to compare them with GPID's organization of its own sets of concepts.
		In such a situation it is necessary to move Beyond Method (title of the third paper) if a diversity of methods is to be interrelated in a manner which is relevant for integrated development.
		In this paper the relevance of ordered patterns of time is explored, especially in the light of the evolution of concepts of integration in music and harmony seen here as a precursor of new approaches to psycho-social organization.
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /docs80s/84patcon.php (1169 words)

	CiteULike: THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE AS A PRODUCT OF THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN COGNITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To ask where language comes from is to raise the question of the origin of the cognitively modern human mind.
		Recent work in conceptual integration theory (CIT) shows that cognitively modern human beings are equipped with an advanced form of a basic mental operation that makes it possible for them to develop a number of human singularities: art, music, science, fashions of dress, dance, mathematics.
		This basic mental operation is conceptual integration, and the advanced form is double-scope integration.
	www.citeulike.org /user/livingthingdan/article/898744 (398 words)

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		In the conceptual phase tools, the need is on better models that can allow rough prediction from indefinite design parameter values, evaluation of processing alternatives, manufacturability, etc. Hence, interoperability between the various design and process planning phases is essential in the evolution of advanced manufacturing.
		Conceptual design is an activity in the early design stage in which the concept of a product is formulated.
		The intended uses of this model are as follows: (1) to be a reference architecture for the next-generation conceptual design, (2) to serve as a basis for developing standard interfaces, and (3) to be used as database schema.
	www.mel.nist.gov /msidlibrary/doc/imece003.doc (3992 words)

	GIS Space: （1－2）Modeling the Semantics of Geographic Categories through Conceptual Integration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A computer desktop inherits semantic structure from multiple conceptual spaces: physical desktops, office documents, folders, clip boards etc. How the features from source domains are picked out and blended together is the key question that conceptual integration theory tries to answer.
		A classical example of conceptual integration is the combination of the mental spaces house and boat in two different ways, to arrive at houseboat and boathouse (Goguen 1999).
		His semantic mappings (which he calls semiotic morphisms) need to be partial, because the conceptual spaces are rich in structure and not all of their structure is passed on in all mappings.
	virginia-gis.spaces.live.com /Blog/cns!45E7F65393A53E20!117.entry (2989 words)

	Conceptual View Integration for Audience Driven Web Design
		From previous research in schema integration we know that the semantic information needed is mainly the different kind of relationships that exist between the concepts in the domain.
		When conceptual modeling is finished, the ontology constructed defines all concepts and relationships used in the chunks.
		In traditional integration solutions an overall domain expert has to provide all the semantic information during the integration process to solve any possible conflicts.
	www.www2003.org /cdrom/papers/poster/p275/p275-detroyer.html (1245 words)

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