This paper aims at depicting the emergence of conceptual integration networks (CIN) in speech data collected from speakers of the socio-dialect from João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. One of its goals is to map some cognitive strategies used by individuals to conceptualize accounts of reality. The corpus used is part of VALPB (Variação Linguística do Estado da Paraíba, Paraíba State Linguistic Variation), which profiles speakers according to sex, age, and schooling years variables. After gathering sufficient data, the CIN occurrences were counted, classified and analyzed; compressions of vital conceptual relations were observed within CIN and described as such; and network typology derived from various kinds of conceptual blend was identified in speakers' narratives. Theoretically, all cognitive assumptions results from work on mental spaces and conceptual integration, as proposed by Fauconnier and Turner (2002). Analysis' results were grouped according to CIN occurrences related to the variables presented in the corpus.
Blending; Conceptual integration networks; Mirror network; Simple network; Single scope network; Double scope network; Conceptualization
