--- abstract: "Conceptual combinations range from the utterly mundane to the sublimely creative. Mundane combinations include a myriad of adjective-noun and noun-noun juxtapositions that crop up in everyday speaking and writing, such as blue car, cooked carrots, and radio phone. Creative combinations include some of the most important theoretical constructions in science, such as sound wave, bacterial infection, and natural selection. Both mundane and creative conceptual combinations are essential to our attempts to make sense of the world and people's utterances about it. This paper will show how the various aspects of conceptual combination discussed by Hampton (this volume), Shoben and Gagné (this volume) and Wisniewski (this volume) can be unified by seeing them as parts of a general coherence mechanism that people use to make sense of what they see and hear." altloc: - http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/CCCC.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Thagard given: Paul. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-06-06 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/06/67 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Ward given: T. B. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Smith given: S. M. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Viad given: J. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 667 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/667/1/CCCC.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:10 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: 'Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes' publisher: 'Washington, D. C. American Psychological Association' refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:32:40 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-sci-art-intel - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Coherent and Creative Conceptual Combinations. type: bookchapter userid: 149 volume: ~