TY - JOUR N2 - The paper challenges the analysis of proverbs as particular cases of Genericis Specific metaphor suggested by Lakof and Turner (1989). I argue that their metaphoric account of proverbs should be considerably revised and extended. Proverbs are usually not used in order to make “generic statements”, but, rather, in order to comment on specific construals of current situations. Therefore, I suggest that proverbs should be analyzed in terms of the theory of conceptual integration networks (Turner & Fauconnier 1995). Accordingly, the specific content of the proverbs and the construal of the current “target” situation should be considered as input spaces, the generic level schema as the generic space and the particular emergent meaning of the proverb in the current situation as the blend. Whether the mapping between the two spaces is more metonymic or metaphoric depends on the relation between the two input spaces. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/118305/PDF-MASTER/06_Bierwiaczonek.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/118305 PY - 2014 EP - 117 A1 - Bierwiaczonek, Bogusław PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 35 DA - 2014 T1 - Conceptual blending in the interpretation of proverbs SP - 101 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/118305 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -