This paper will develop a cognitive stylistic framework drawn from Conceptual Integration (Blending) Theory (Fauconnier and Turner 2002), and Text World Theory, which uses the idea of elaboration sites as potential structural enablers in mapping across blend spaces. The framework will be used to investigate the operation of allegory and metaphor in Emma Purhouse’s poem ‘Flamingos in Dudley Zoo’. Previous work on blending and allegory is taken as a departure point for the exploration of the relationship between text-worlds and blends in allegory in order to investigate how a hybrid approach may produce a richer understanding of how the poem achieves its effects. The paper will examine the conceptual blends created by metaphors suggested by the allegory in terms of their input (source and target) spaces, and examine how these may create and enrich metaphoric text-worlds in the poem. The paper develops a text-world mechanism, the peri-text-world, that allows the source, target and blended worlds to be integrated into one complex that can allow the necessary mappings to proceed from the source world-system of the allegory, through the allegorical blend, to structure a target world. It will also consider how this mapping process creates the potential for a number of candidate targets and how that uncertainty helps the poem make its point.

本文将建立一个基于概念整合（融合）理论（Fauconnier和Turner 2002）以及文本世界理论的认知文体框架，该框架使用精化站点的思想作为跨混合空间映射的潜在结构性推动因素。该框架将用于调查艾玛·普豪斯（Emma Purhouse）的诗《达德利动物园的火烈鸟》中寓言和隐喻的运作。先前关于融合和寓言的工作被用作探索文本世界和寓言中的融合之间关系的出发点，以研究混合方法如何对诗歌如何实现其效果产生更丰富的理解。本文将研究寓言所暗示的隐喻在输入（源和目标）空间方面创造的概念融合，并研究它们如何创造和丰富诗歌中的隐喻文本世界。本文开发了一种文本世界机制，即peri-text-world，该机制允许将源世界，目标世界和混合世界集成到一个复合体中，从而可以从寓言的源世界系统中进行必要的映射，直到寓言交融，构成目标世界。它还将考虑这种映射过程如何为许多候选目标创造潜力，以及这种不确定性如何帮助这首诗发挥作用。建立目标世界。它还将考虑这种映射过程如何为许多候选目标创造潜力，以及这种不确定性如何帮助这首诗发挥作用。建立目标世界。它还将考虑这种映射过程如何为许多候选目标创造潜力，以及这种不确定性如何帮助这首诗发挥作用。