Semantic Leaps

Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction

Seana Coulson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2006
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-02783-0 (ISBN)

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Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, Coulson identifies two related sets of processes: frame-shifting and conceptual blending. Frame-shifting is semantic reanalysis in which existing elements in the contextual representation are reorganized into a new frame. Conceptual blending is a set of cognitive operations for combining partial cognitive models. By addressing linguistic phenomena often ignored in traditional meaning research, Coulson explains how processes of cross-domain mapping, frame-shifting and conceptual blending enhance the explanatory adequacy of traditional frame-based systems for natural language processing. The focus is on how the constructive processes speakers use to assemble, link and adapt simple cognitive models underlie a broad range of productive language behaviour.

Acknowledgments; 1. Semantic leaps; Part I. Frame-Shifting: 2. Frame-shifting and models of language processing; 3. Models of sentential integration; 4. Frame-shifting and the brain; Part II. Conceptual Blending: 5. Conceptual blending in modified noun phrases; 6. Conceptual blending in metaphor and analogy; 7. Counterfactual conditionals; Part III. Applications: Blending, Framing, and Blaming: 8. Framing in moral discourse; 9. Frame-shifting and scalar implicature; 10. The space structuring model; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.11.2006
Zusatzinfo	16 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	0-521-02783-7 / 0521027837
ISBN-13	978-0-521-02783-0 / 9780521027830
Zustand	Neuware