SEMANTIC LEAPS by Seana Coulson ( 9780521027830 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SEMANTIC LEAPS
FRAME-SHIFTING AND CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN MEANING CONSTRUCTION

By:

Seana Coulson

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521027837

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9780521027830

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 July, 2006

Pages:

320

Description:

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas.

Synopsis:

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.

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16 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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