| Robert St. Clair: | |
| Name: | Robert St. Clair |
| Academic Institution: | University of Louisville |
| Co-autores/Co-authors: | LiChung Su, Nan Kai University in Beijing, China Ana Clotilde Thomé-Williams, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana |
| email: | rnstcl01@louisville.edu |
| Country: | Estados Unidos/United States |
| Paper Title | The Role of Social Script Theory in Cognitive Blending |
| Abstract: | Social scripts provide scenarios for social interaction through language. In cognitive linguistics, the concept of frames is more psychological than social. They account more for how a person processes language within himself rather than accounting for how a person interacts socially with others. Hence, the elaboration of the theory demands the inclusion of social scripts would enhance the model of cognitive blending. Goffman referred to these as scenarios and argued that scenarios occur within social frames. Social script theory incorporates these aspects of the sociology of knowledge into cognitive linguistics. It advocates a model of cognitive sociology which accounts not only for biological constructs within human information processing systems, but also social constructs such as the concepts of self, significant other, social roles, social relationships, defining the context of the situation, episodic memory, and social scripts. |