The Way We Imagine1

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK TURNER
Keyword(s):  
Modern Human ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the engine of human imagination —the conceptual integration in which conceptual arrays are blended to form compressed, memorable conceptual packets, agreeable to human thought. The highest form of conceptual integration is the ‘double-scope’ integration. Double scope integration is the hallmark that distinguishes modern human imagination from its ancestors. The double-scope integration network consists of input conceptual arrays with different organizing frames and creates a blend with organizing frame that receives projections from each of those organizing frames. In this network, the organizing frames give contributions to the blend, and their sharp divergences offer the possibility for rich clashes. These clashes offer conceptual challenges and the resulting blends can turn out to be imaginative.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN BUDAYA LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Sugeng Listyo
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Interesting Topic ◽  
Main Medium ◽  
The Way

<p class="Bodytext20">The culture of educational institution is something that is built from the companionship between the values followed by the leader and those followed by the teachers and the staffs. Those values are built by human thought existing in the madrasah (school). The companionship, then, produces the thought of organization which emerges in the form of values to be believed by all members of the institution. Furthermore, those values will be the main medium to shape the culture of its educational institution. The culture then rises in many kinds of visible symbols and acts in the daily life of the educational institution. The concept of building the culture through companioning different values becomes an interesting topic to be explored through this paper. This paper also intends to explore the significance of forming and shaping the thought of organization as the way to lead a harmonious institution atmosphere.</p><p class="Bodytext20"> </p><p class="Bodytext20">Budaya lembaga pendidikan adalah sesuatu yang dibangun dari persahabatan antara nilai-nilai yang diikuti oleh pemimpin dan yang diikuti oleh para guru dan para staf. Nilai tersebut dibangun oleh pemikiran manusia yang ada di madrasah (sekolah). Oleh karena itu, persahabatan menghasilkan pemikiran tentang organisasi yang muncul dalam bentuk nilai yang dapat dipercaya oleh semua anggota institusi. Selanjutnya, nilai tersebut akan menjadi media utama untuk membentuk budaya lembaga pendidikannya. Budaya kemudian meningkat dalam berbagai jenis simbol dan tindakan yang terlihat dalam kehidupan sehari-hari institusi pendidikan. Konsep membangun budaya melalui pendampingan nilai yang berbeda menjadi topik yang menarik untuk dijelajahi melalui makalah ini. Makalah ini juga bermaksud menggali makna pembentukan dan pembentukan pemikiran organisasi sebagai cara untuk memimpin atmosfir institusi yang harmonis.</p>

The Subjectivity of Nature

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-42
Author(s):  
James Miller
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Objective World ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Way

Daoism proposes a radical reversal of the way that modern human beings think about the natural world. Rather than understanding human beings as “subject” who observe the “objective” world of nature, Daoism proposes that subjectivity is grounded in the Dao or Way, understood as the wellspring of cosmic creativity for a world of constant transformation. As a result the Daoist goal of “obtaining the Dao” offers insights into the ecological quest to transcend the modern, Cartesian bifurcation of subject and object, self and world. From this follows an ideal of human action not as the projection of agency onto an neutral, objective backdrop but as a transaction or mediation between self and world.

scholarly journals Ceramics (As Containers)

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Knappett ◽  
Lambros Malafouris ◽  
Peter Tomkins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
The Body ◽  
Plastic Medium ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Human Material

This article focuses on the importance of ceramics in material cultural studies. It proceeds to say that ceramics are considered a key feature of human material culture because of what they are taken to represent in economic, technological, and evolutionary terms. The innovation of taking the plastic medium of clay and marrying it with pyrotechnology to create irreversibly a resilient object — usually in the form of a container, has frequently been assumed to mark a revolutionary stage in the development of modern human thought and practice, forming with agriculture and sedentism a trinity of epoch-changing innovations. This article talks about the idea of the body as being used as a container. It says that ‘Containment’ may well be the ‘function’ offering archaeology one of the most important sources of archaeological data and windows into society, and culture; but very little is known about the cognitive, experiential, and evolutionary grounding of the concepts embodied in each and every container.

scholarly journals نشأة العلوم الإسلامية وتطورها: تأسيس علم مقاصد الشريعة أنموذجاً

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (65) ◽  
pp. 36-11
Author(s):  
الحسان شهيد
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Determinant Factors ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Way

قد يسهم النظر في الأسس التاريخية والجذور المعرفية لنشوء العلوم الإسلامية في فهم بعض الإشكالات المرتبطة بغاياتها ومقاصدها؛ لأنَّ أوجه التفكير في بدايات ظهورها وظروف تأسيسها سوف يعين في الكشف عن العوامل المؤثرة في عمل العقل الباحث، وتقديم إشارات حول المقاصد التي رسمها الفكر الإنساني لتلك العلوم. مثل هذا التأسيس النظري يعين في الإجابة عن أسئلة تختص بإمكانية إنشاء علوم جديدة كعلم مقاصد الشريعة، وبيان مدى صحة ذلك في النظر العلمي، وثباته في الواقع الوجودي بين العلوم من حيث الضرورات والمسوغات. Analyzing epistemological and historical foundations of the rise of Islamic sciences may contribute to a better understanding of issues associated with their objectives. Thinking about the early appearances and the circumstances of the Islamic sciences would help identify determinant factors of the inquiring mind and provide references for the objectives laid out for these sciences by human thought. On the basis of this theoretical ground, issues related to the emergence of these sciences arise, the most critical of which is the possibility of founding new sciences such as the Objectives of Islamic Law. The paper tries to answer questions related to the way in which various sciences have been established in Islamic thought and the values behind establishing such sciences.

Mythogenesis and Anthropogenesis

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Andrey P. Zabiyako ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Modern Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
The Way

In the period of the 19th – beginning of the 21th century in the study of mythol­ogy three paradigms of the study of mythogenesis have consistently dominated – historical, non-historical and historical-cognitive. The historical-cognitive para­digm is based on the latest scientific results in the field of archeology, anthro­pology and cognitive science. The modern model of anthropogenesis assumes the existence of general regularities of development of three types of Homo – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. There are reasons that are not only Homo sapiens, but also the Neanderthals and Denisovans had high cognitive ca­pabilities and signs of modern human behavior. The most important foundations of mythogenesis are the functioning of language and the activity of the imagina­tion. All three populations of ancient mankind reached a cognitive minimum, which opened the way to mythogenesis. Signs of mythogenesis are clearly recorded no later than the time of the transition from the Middle to Upper Pale­olithic, during the Early Aurignacian, but the beginning of this process goes back to an earlier period.

Epistemology in Excess?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Emma Williams’ “In Excess of Epistemology” (2015) admirably endeavors to open the way to an account of critical thinking that goes beyond the one I have defended ad nauseam in recent decades by developing, via the work of Charles Taylor and Martin Heidegger, “a radically different conception of thinking and the human being who thinks,” one that “does more justice to receptive and responsible conditions of human thought.” In this response I hope to show that much of Williams’ alternative approach is compatible with my own; that, where incompatible, the alternative is problematic; and, finally, that there is a risk of talking past one another, of talking at cross-purposes, that all sides must work to overcome.

A City of One’s Own: Heterotopias in Ivana Šojat’s Unterstadt

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-268
Author(s):  
Sonja Novak
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
The Way

Summary The paper analyses the phenomenon of heterotopias as they are described by Michel Foucault and the way they are employed in literature and theatre. The paper argues that each time an author writes or re-writes, a director stages, a member of the audience sees and reader reads a fictional narrative that is set into a non-fictional place (e. g. a city), a heterotopia, “another”, different place is created by means of conceptual integration. This will be exemplified on the contemporary Croatian novel Unterstadt by Ivana Šojat and its stage adaptation.

scholarly journals A Cognitive Stylistic study of poetic discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 218 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Lecturer Ali Abdul Ilah Ghani
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Dynamic Mapping ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Mental Constructs ◽  
The Way

    The study is concerned with the investigation of cognitive stylistic in the selected poem written by Emily Dickinson in order to show the effect of different cognitive stylistic devices especially the use of mental spaces on the interpretation of meaning. These mental spaces can help construct grammars that conceptualize the poet's world view. They are interacted and used not only in creation conceptual integration but also used to model dynamic mapping in the thought and language.           The analysis has shown that cognitive stylistics is used as a device to provide a systematic and scientific approach to discourse authors and readers understanding of the world and explain how these interpretations are reflected in discourse organization. It tries to explain the way the cognitive processes are involved in meaning constructions. Furthermore, mental spaces can help construct grammars that conceptualize the poet's world view. Dickinson use of self-anaphor has created a world of possibilities, a world in which things can happen and be made to happen through the agencies of the self. Finally, metaphor is used as a scheme by which people conceptualize their experience to transfer, modify or blend mental constructs especially in the way by which one mental representation is mapped onto another when we read a text.

Blending as a theoretical tool for poetic analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 269-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Teresa Calderón Quindós
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
Single Piece ◽  
Systematic Methodology ◽  
Aesthetic Principle ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
The Way

The relation between Linguistics and Poetics has often been a controversial issue in Poetic Studies. With the advent of Cognitive Linguistics and its open disposition to consider any kind of discourse as interesting enough samples of human thought — and human thought being discovered to be of a figurative nature — doors have been widely opened to poetry. Despite the firm reluctance of some Literary sectors to move beyond traditional Poetics, the works by E. Semino, P. Stockwell, Gavins & Steen and M. Freeman are clear confirmation of the modern tendency to incorporate CL findings into poetic analysis. The present paper explores this relation once again. Based on the “unity-in-variety” aesthetic principle, it analyses the way Blending Theory provides the necessary resources to consider any single piece of the poem in the integration network. The paper also offers a systematic methodology — illustrated with a brief analysis of Seamus Heaney’s “Oracle” — which intends to make a contribution to the discipline of Poetics mainly in the educational field.

scholarly journals What is advertising without blending? Advertisements in women’s magazines

ExELL ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Nihada Delibegović Džanić ◽  
Alma Žerić
Keyword(s):  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Conceptual Integration Theory

AbstractConceptual integration theory, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner in 1993, has been successfully used in the study of a wide range of phenomena of human thought and action, from counterfactuals to metaphors, proving blending to be present in the simplest kinds of human thinking. In that sense, conceptual integration theory has emerged as a powerful theory that can account for a wide variety of linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena. Therefore, it is not surprising that conceptual integration theory has found its application in the study of advertising. Advertising requires both conscious and subconscious mental interpretation of the hidden messages. The primary objective of this paper is to show that conceptual integration theory is equipped with the mechanisms that can explain the construction of the meaning of text-image advertisements. Specifically, analyzing several text-image advertisements in women’s magazines, this paper attempts to explore to what extent hidden cognitive mechanisms involved in the interpretation of advertising can be explained using the postulates of conceptual integration theory.

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