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EMOTION constitutes a paradigmatic case of an abstract domain that needs to be conceptualized in terms of more structured experiences. For example, we talk about our emotions using sensorimotor information, such as spatial relations (fall in love) or bodily sensations (boil with anger).
I am especially interested in how affective meanings arise from the interplay of conceptual templates and instance-based creativity. I study how this process relates to our cognitive capacities for imagination and reasoning, mainly for conceptual integration, schema formation, and conceptual framing. So far, I have focused on the poetic figurative language of love in Greek, Spanish, English, and other poetic traditions.
Pagán Cánovas, C. 2016. Rethinking image schemas: Containment and emotion in Greek poetry. Journal of Literary Semantics 45(2): 117–139. A RG
Pagán Cánovas, C. 2014. Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach. In J. E. Díaz Vera (ed.)Metaphor and Metonymy through Time and Cultures. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 295-318.
Pagán Cánovas, C. 2011. The Genesis of the Arrows of Love: Diachronic Conceptual Integration in Greek Mythology. American Journal of Philology 132:4. 553-579.
Pagán Cánovas, C. 2010. Erotic Emissions in Greek Poetry: A Generic Integration Network. Cognitive Semiotics 6. 7-32.
Pagán Cánovas, C. 2010. Conceptual Blending Theory and the History of Emotions. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Social Sciences, Cogsci 2010.
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EMOCCC: Cognition, Creativity, and Culture in the verbal representation of emotions
Research on the Greek materials related to this project is supported by a FBBVA grant for Early Career Researchers.
Research on the Greek materials related to this project is supported by a FBBVA grant for Early Career Researchers.
Institutions: Research takes place at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, within the framework of the project History of Distributed Cognition.
Institutions: Research takes place at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, within the framework of the project History of Distributed Cognition.
EMOCCC studies how affective meanings arise from the interplay of entrenched conceptual templates and ad-hoc creativity. Through a detailed comparison of emotion concepts and their expression across languages and periods, the project seeks to understand how our cognitive capacities for conceptual integration, schema imaging and conceptual framing boost human imagination and reasoning, allowing us to run mental simulations or imagery with a powerful aesthetic and conceptual meaning.
NARLYR. The Narrative Lyric: Conceptual Blending of Spatial Schemata with Emotion in Poetry and Beyond.
Funded by a three-year Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for career development from the European Commission.
Institutions: Case Western Reserve University, University of Murcia, University of California San Diego, University of Oxford.
This project explored the figurative language of emotions mainly in Greek (ancient and modern), English, Spanish poetry to understand how a variety of conceptual materials are integrated with schematic narratives grounded on embodied cognition. This process gives rise to a wide range of products of the imagination, and to a great variety of meanings and forms, all conceiving basic emotional situations as small spatial events at the scale of a human body. In order to model recurrent imaginative patterns, NARLYR has proposed generic structures of conceptual integration that recur across poetic imagery, and are also present in art, rituals, religious symbols, or everyday communication.
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GREMOMET. Cognitive Patterns in Greek Emotion Metaphors
Funded by a six-month scholarship from the ERC Advanced Grant Project Emotions: The Greek Paradigm (A. Chaniotis, University of Oxford).
This project is part of a long-term initiative to investigate what combinations of conceptual materials are the most successful for communicating emotion in verbal art, to what extent these conceptual recipes are shared by non-poetic usages and by non-verbal representations, and what in these patterns is based on cognition, what on culture, and what on factors related to communication, such as rhetorical goals, relevance, styles, or genres. Greek emotion metaphors constitute an inexhaustible source of case studies for this endeavour. The vast diachrony of Greek culture offers unique possibilities to study how these conceptual templates evolve through time, and how their cognitive recipes are instantiated in a variety of ways in distant cultural settings.
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