I found the quote I was looking for on page 360 of _The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities_ by Turner and Fauconnier:
"We see in these examples the falsity of the general view that conceptual structure is "encoded" by the speaker into a linguistic structure, and that the linguistic structure is "decoded" by the hearer back into a conceptual structure. An expression provides only sparse and efficient prompts for constructing a conceptual structure." You probably need their examples, and possibly the rest of the book to be persuaded, but there it is. My take-away is that language is not enough to represent concepts. That's not exactly what they said, but I have other stuff supporting my belief, in addition to this. andi On Sat, May 11, 2013 11:38 pm, Andrew Babian wrote: > I read Turner and Fauconnier's book on this a while back. There is a quote > from it I've been wanting to look up that had a deep impact on me and > refers to stuff I've been harping on here. It is roughly that knowledge > cannot be represented by language. I may not have it exactly, but that's > what I took from it. Seems like no one here agrees with that, anyway. > Dimitry, If you know what I'm talking about I could use some help, as I > don't have my copy handy. > andi > > > Dimitry Volfson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Look Up: "Conceptual Blending" on wikipedia. > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3870391-266c919a > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
