Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas is involved.
Articles
2020 Gesturing in the wild: Evidence for a flexible mental timeline Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 289–315 | Article
Psycholinguistic evidence shows that spatial domains are automatically activated when processing temporal expressions. Speakers conceptualize time as a straight line deployed along different axes (mostly sagittal, though also vertical). The use of the lateral axis, which cannot be lexicalized in… read more
2016 Generic integration templates for fictive communication The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction, Pascual, Esther and Sergeiy Sandler (eds.), pp. 45–62 | Article
In this chapter, we seek to show that the human mind can create blended discourse, or fictive communication, because it is able to do advanced conceptual blending. Thanks to advanced blending, human beings can integrate unrelated experiences and concepts into new mental wholes with novel properties. read more
2012 Much more than money: Conceptual integration and the materialization of time in Michael Ende’s Momo and the social sciences Pragmatics & Cognition 20:3, pp. 546–569 | Article
We analyze conceptual patterns shared by Michael Ende’s novel about time, Momo, and examples of time conceptualization from psychology, sociology, economics, conventional language, and real social practices. We study three major mappings in the materialization of time: time as money in relation… read more