Aspects Of Meaning Construction
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Aspects Of Meaning Construction
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Author : Günter Radden
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Aspects Of Meaning Construction written by Günter Radden and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive principles. The contributions collected in the volume focus on two types of cognitive principles guiding meaning construction: meaning construction by means of metonymy and metaphor, and meaning construction by means of mental spaces and conceptual blending. The papers in the former group survey experiential evidence of figurative meaning construction and discuss high-level metaphor and metonymy, the role of metonymy in discourse, the chaining of metonymies, metonymy as an alternative to coercion, and metaphtonymic meanings of proper names. The papers in the latter group address the issues of meaning construction prompted by personal pronouns, relative clauses, inferential constructions, sort-of expressions, questions, and the into-causative construction.
Mental Spaces
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Author : Gilles Fauconnier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-08-26
Mental Spaces written by Gilles Fauconnier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Mental Spaces is the classic introduction to the study of mental spaces and conceptual projection, as revealed through the structure and use of language. It examines in detail the dynamic construction of connected domains as discourse unfolds. The discovery of mental space organization has modified our conception of language and thought: powerful and uniform accounts of superficially disparate phenomena have become available in the areas of reference, presupposition projection, counterfactual and analogical reasoning, metaphor and metonymy, and time and aspect in discourse. The present work lays the foundation for this research. It uncovers simple and general principles that lie behind the awesome complexity of everyday logic.
This Book Of Books
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Author : Mihály Árpád
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
This Book Of Books written by Mihály Árpád and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Semantic Leaps
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Author : Seana Coulson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-29
Semantic Leaps written by Seana Coulson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Linguistic Perspectives On The Construction Of Meaning And Knowledge
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Author : Elke Diedrichsen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Linguistic Perspectives On The Construction Of Meaning And Knowledge written by Elke Diedrichsen and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is an exploration of the dimensions of meaning in language from several important perspectives that are of major interest to scholars today, bringing together studies from the realms of linguistic pragmatics, semantics, ontological knowledge engineering, and computational linguistics. Situated within modern functional-cognitive constructional-ontological and computational paradigms, the analyses here are supported by authentic language data, including corpus data, from a rich set of languages. Context and situation play an important but complex role in meaning elaboration. The role of context and situation is elusive and has proved difficult to elucidate with respect to meaning and knowledge representation. This volume provides evidence of the nature of the, often rapid, emergence of meaning in the digital world of the internet, social media, and Internet memes. The use of computational avatars and the rise of human language technologies, including big data and digital corpora, have made the construction of meaning and human language understanding essential to the work of linguists, cognitive scientists and computer scientists who are increasingly working together in collaborative teams to share insights.
Figurative Meaning Construction In Thought And Language
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Author : Annalisa Baicchi
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-08-12
Figurative Meaning Construction In Thought And Language written by Annalisa Baicchi and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.
The Construction Of Words
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Author : Geert Booij
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-13
The Construction Of Words written by Geert Booij and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail. It deals with data from several domains of linguistics and contributes to an integration of findings from various subdisciplines of linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language. It presents applications and extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages. Construction Morphology is one of the theoretical paradigms in present-day morphology. It makes use of concepts of Construction Grammar for the analysis of word formation and inflection. Complex words are seen as constructions, that is, pairs of form and meaning. Morphological patterns are accounted for by construction schemas. These are the recipes for coining new words and word forms, and they motivate the properties of existing complex words. Both schemas and individual words are stored, and hence there is no strict separation of lexicon and grammar. In addition to abstract schemas there are subschemas for subclasses of complex words with specific properties. This architecture of the grammar is in harmony with findings from other empirical domains of linguistics such as language acquisition, word processing, and language change.
How Words Mean
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Author : Vyvyan Evans
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-09-10
How Words Mean written by Vyvyan Evans and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non-linguistic concepts and the meanings encoded in language. It develops an account of how words are understood when we produce and hear language in situated contexts of use. It proposes two theoretical constructs, the lexical concept and the cognitive model. These are central to the accounts of lexical representation and meaning construction developed, giving rise to the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (or LCCM Theory). Vyvyan Evans integrates and advances recent developments in cognitive science, particularly in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology. He builds a framework for the understanding and analysis of meaning that is at once descriptively adequate and psychologically plausible. In so doing he also addresses current issues in lexical semantics and semantic compositionality, polysemy, figurative language, and the semantics of time and space, and writes in a way that will be accessible to students of linguistics and cognitive science at advanced undergraduate level and above.
The Time Course Of Meaning Construction With Varying Expectations
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Author : Matthew John Kmiecik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Time Course Of Meaning Construction With Varying Expectations written by Matthew John Kmiecik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Electroencephalography categories.
The human brain is an amazing information processor that derives meaning from our environment quickly and effortlessly, but not passively. Instead, it does so interactively by preadapting to changes, recognizing and learning patterns, and forming expectations about the future. How does the brain combine influences from our external and internal milieu to construct meaning? Electrophysiological studies of semantic memory have identified the N400 event related potential—a neural correlate indexing semantic processing in the brain—sensitive to a variety of top-down and bottom-up influences; however, the mechanisms that explain volitional aspects of semantic meaning construction are not fully understood. To explore this, participants were visually shown sentences, with words presented one at a time, and evaluated whether the final words of sentences formed sensible (SC) or unconnected completions (UCs). Top-down expectancies were modulated using colored boxes that surrounded the words of each sentence cueing the participants to either expect a SC (green) or UC (orange). A neutral cue (purple) that did not indicate the completion type served as a baseline condition. Top-down expectancies were factorially crossed with completion type forming valid, invalid, and neutral conditions. Participants were more accurate when evaluating validly than invalidly cued sentences and selectively faster when solving validly cued sentences that were semantically congruent. The N400, as measured following the presentation of the final word, was modulated mainly by semantic congruency but not expectancy. These results suggest that top-down mediated expectancies do not affect neural signatures of semantic access, but ultimately affect processing responsible for resolving discrepancies between semantic congruency and expectancy.
The Communicative Mind
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Author : Line Brandt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-04
The Communicative Mind written by Line Brandt and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
Integrating research in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics, neurophenomenology, and literary studies, The Communicative Mind presents a thought-provoking and multifaceted investigation into linguistic meaning construction. It explores the various ways in which the intersubjectivity of communicating interactants manifests itself in language structure and use and argues for the indispensability of dialogue as a semantic resource in cognition. The view of the mind as highly conditioned by the domain of interpersonal communication is supported by an extensive range of empirical linguistic data from fiction, poetry and written and spoken everyday language, including rhetorically “creative” metaphors and metonymies. The author introduces Cognitive Linguistics to the notion of enunciation, which refers to the situated act of language use, and demonstrates the centrality of subjectivity and turn-taking interaction in natural semantics. The theoretical framework presented takes contextual relevance, viewpoint shifts, dynamicity, and the introduction into discourse of elements with no real-world counterparts (subjective motion, fictivity and other forms of non-actuality) to be vital components in the construction of meaning. The book engages the reader in critical discussions of cognitive-linguistic approaches to semantic construal and addresses the philosophical implications of the identified strengths and limitations. Among the theoretical advances in what Brandt refers to as the cognitive humanities is Fauconnier and Turner’s theory of conceptual integration of “mental spaces” which has proved widely influential in Cognitive Poetics and Linguistics, offering a philosophy of language bridging the gap between pragmatics and semantics. With its constructive criticism of the “general mechanism” hypothesis, according to which “blending” can explain everything from the origin of language to binding in perception, Brandt’s book brings the scope and applicability of Conceptual Integration Theory into the arena of scientific debate. The book contains five main chapters entitled Enunciation: Aspects of Subjectivity in Meaning Construction, The Subjective Conceptualizer: Non-actuality in Construal, Conceptual Integration in Semiotic Meaning Construction, Meaning Construction in Literary Text, and Effects of Poetic Enunciation: Seven Types of Iconicity.