This paper examines the tragic sense permeating ancient Greek drama as a product of a special type of conceptual integration between two antithetic mental spaces, which prompts the simultaneous generation of two mutually exclusive emergent structures. The special tragic sense generated carries along the inferences of two equally impossible situations. The key-difference between this type of blend and other counterfactuals is argued to be found in the lack of reference scenario in the blend. In the context of theatrical enactment, the realisation of this special type of antithetic blend is based on the frame-clash between conceived and enacted space, matched by the emotions of pity and fear, respectively. The feeling of catharsis that follows the end of the play is analysed as a second level blend within the emergent structure that leads to the restoration of a single common space of cognitive compatibility between actors and audience.

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希腊戏剧的悲剧与概念融合

本文考察了渗透在古希腊戏剧中的悲剧感，这是两种对立的心理空间之间特殊类型的概念整合的产物，它促使同时产生两个相互排斥的涌现结构。产生的特殊悲剧感伴随着两个同样不可能的情况的推论。据认为，这种类型的混合与其他反事实之间的关键区别在于混合中缺乏参考情景。在戏剧表演的背景下，这种特殊类型的对立融合的实现是基于构想空间与构想空间之间的框架冲突，分别与怜悯和恐惧的情感相匹配。