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Energy is an abstract science concept, so the ways that we think and talkabout energy rely heavily on ontological metaphors: metaphors for what kind ofthing energy is. Two commonly used ontological metaphors for energy are energyas a substance and energy as a vertical location. Our previous work hasdemonstrated that students and experts can productively use both the substanceand location ontologies for energy. In this paper, we use Fauconnier andTurner's conceptual blending framework to demonstrate that experts and novicescan successfully blend the substance and location ontologies into a coherentmental model in order to reason about energy. Our data come from classroomrecordings of a physics professor teaching a physics course for the lifesciences, and from an interview with an undergraduate student in that course.We analyze these data using predicate analysis and gesture analysis, looking atverbal utterances, gestures, and the interaction between them. This analysisyields evidence that the speakers are blending the substance and locationontologies into a single blended mental space.

Applying Conceptual Blending to Model Coordinated Use of Multiple Ontological Metaphors