Assignment #3 Linguistics and Conceptualization                   Name______________________________________________
1.		Name that Metaphor Lakoff has identified a variety of basic and pervasive metaphors evidenced by the systematic use of language associated with one domain (the source) for talking about another domain (the target).  Such metaphors have been given names such as AN ARGUMENT IS A BUILDING or HAPPY IS UP where the name has the general form of TARGET is SOURCE.  Consider the following sets of linguistic expressions and come up with a Lakovian name for the metaphor that identifies the target and the source. Example: She’s hot to trot. I melted when he kissed me. He was burning with desire. Answer:   LUST (or PASSION) is HEAT
	a.	The blender just died This battery has a life of 3 years. The screen went crazy. My thermostate figures out how to adjust the temperature. __________________ IS/ARE ______________________
	b.	He’s really immersed in his studies. The answer finally surfaced. He kept coming up empty. There’s no clear solution to the problem. __________________ IS/ARE ______________________
	c.	She's not on an even keel They're upset I'm a very stable individual She's quite level-headed __________________ IS/ARE ______________________
	d.	He has an appetite for learning. She has an insatiable curiosity We have to regurgitate everything we learned on the final I’ve been ruminating on that topic for a while. It'll take some time to digest that information. __________________ IS/ARE ______________________
2.		In a blend, elements from two input domains combine to produce a novel conception with emergent properties.   A blend typically borrows partial structure from each input and mappings can be made between elements in the blend and elements in the input, and between elements in the input.    Analyze the two following examples as blends, describing 1) what the blend is asserting, 2) what the two input spaces are, 3) what elements from the inputs are (saliently) present in the blend, and 4) what the salient mappings are between elements in the two input spaces.  It may be convenient to answer questions 2-4 by drawing and labeling a diagram such as those shown in class (and in the Fauconnier reading)
	a.	Margaret Thatcher would never get elected here because the labor unions can’t stand her.
	b.	I claim that reason is a self-developing capacity.  Kant disagrees with me on this point.  He says it’s innate, but I answer that that’s begging the question, to which he counters, in Critique of Pure Reason, that only innate ideas have power.  But I say to that, what about neuronal group selection?  And he gives not answer. Note:  Kant is a philosopher, now deceased.   The blend here is not in the content of the words but the structuring of the paragraph.