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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.
The distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning can be
traced back to folk models about the relationship between language
and the world. According to these models, sentences can be seen as
building a representation of the world they describe, and
understanding a sentence means knowing how each linguistic element
affects the construction of the representation. Papers in this
volume connect these folk models to the more scientific notions of
the literal/nonliteral distinction proposed by philosophers,
linguists, and cognitive scientists. The current volume examines
the literal/nonliteral distinction from a number of disciplinary
and theoretical perspectives, outlining some of the problematic
assumptions in traditional paradigms and pointing to promising
directions for the study of meaning.
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. 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.
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