Nominator's statement

This is a foundational work on the construction of meaning during thought and action, and on the nature of linguistic systems as prompts for the construction of meaning. Fauconnier established the now classic notions of presupposition float, optimization across spaces, space-builders, and so on. It has become even more influential as it has aged.

comments

• An elegant account of mental mappings that accounts for many constructions not explained by propositional logic and which has generated further studies of mappings in thought and language, conceptual integration theory (blending), and cognitive stylistics.