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Conceptual Blends and Critical Awareness in Teaching Cultural Narratives

Source: L2 Journal, Volume 2
Year: 2010

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Bringing conceptual blending into foreign language classroom discussions of cultural narratives can lead to critical language awareness and a deeper and broader understanding of cultural narratives, which the MLA promotes in its (2007) conceptualization of transcultural and translingual awareness. Using the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification as example narratives, this paper seeks to show how political humor can unpack and illuminate complex, blended narratives that infuse everyday linguistic expressions and ways of making meaning. It will then offer suggestions for using conceptual blending to analyze cultural narratives in the classroom. Keywords: German Studies, conceptual blending, humor, cognitive poetics, cultural narratives

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