Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction
Cambridge University Press (2001)
| Abstract | 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 behavior. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Semantics Psychological aspects Frames (Linguistics Concepts Cognitive grammar | |||||||||
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| Call number | P325.5.P78.C68 2001 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521643619 0521027837 9780521643610 | |||||||||
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