Double-scope blending of associative and causal event structures in narratives

Bartosz Stopel

doi:10.18778/8220-051-5

Double-scope blending of associative and causal event structures in narratives

Bartosz Stopel

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Publikacja:

Focus on events and narratives in language, psychology, social and medical practice

Serie: Łódzkie Studia z Językoznawstwa Angielskiego i Ogólnego

Strony: 103-114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-051-5.09

Opublikowane: 30 grudnia 2020

Kategorie: Filologie obce, Otwarty dostęp

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The article explores the role of Turner’s double-scope blending theory for the cognition and emotional response to narratives. I argue that narratives expected to afford aesthetic experience typically have a unified associative event structure, apart from the basic causal event structure, and that the former operates chiefly according to principles of similarity, thus being closer to metaphor than the latter. Double-scope blending seems to be essential to link narrative events associatively and then to blend this structure with the causal one, leading in effect to the complete, unified narrative. Thus, beyond its cognitive utility, it does seem to contain an important affective component which plays a role in aesthetic experience of stories.

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Stopel, Bartosz. 2020. „Double-Scope Blending of Associative and Causal Event Structures in Narratives”. W Focus on Events and Narratives in Language, Psychology, Social and Medical Practice, zredagowane przez Janusz Badio, 9:103-14. Łódzkie Studia Z Językoznawstwa Angielskiego I Ogólnego. Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-051-5.09.