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Frames of understanding in text and discourse : theoretical foundations and descriptive applications / Alexander Ziem ; translated by Catherine Schwerin

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Ziem, Alexander
Uniform Title
Frames und sprachliches Wissen. English
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 428 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Schwerin, Catherine
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Evidence for frames -- 1.2. Frames in research -- 1.2.1. development of frame research -- 1.2.2. Frames and other representation formats -- 1.3. Frames in cognitive science -- 1.3.1. Cognition, representation, categorization -- 1.3.2. Positions in cognitive theory -- 1.3.3. Frames in modularist and holistic approaches -- 2.1. Holism vs. Modularism: an example -- 2.2. Modularism -- 2.2.1. Two-level semantics (M. Bierwisch) -- 2.2.2. Frame semantics vs. two-level semantics: some issues -- 2.2.3. Example analyses -- 2.2.4. Three-level semantics (M. Schwarz) -- 2.3. Holism -- 2.3.1. Meaning as conceptualization -- 2.3.2. Language as conceptualization (R. Langacker vs. R. Jackendoff) -- 3.1. Are linguistic and conceptual knowledge distinct entities? -- 3.1.1. Essence vs. accidence? -- 3.1.2. Synthetic vs. analytic truths? -- 3.1.3. Culture vs. language? -- 3.1.4. Semantics vs. pragmatics? -- 3.2. "space of understanding" (C. Demmerling) -- 3.3. postulate of U-relevance -- 3.3.1. Busse's explicative semantics -- 3.3.2. Approaches in psycholinguistic research on language-processing -- 3.3.3. Comparison of knowledge types -- 4.1. Linguistic signs as constructions -- 4.1.1. symbolic principle in construction grammar and Cognitive Grammar -- 4.1.2. What are constructions and symbolic units? -- 4.1.3. Constructions in the "space of understanding" -- 4.2. Frames and symbolic units -- 4.2.1. Conventional vs. contextual aspects of meaning (R. Langacker) -- 4.2.2. Are "situations" and "backgrounds" elements of semantic units? (J. Zlatev) -- 4.2.3. Are "scenes" elements of semantic units? (C. Fillmore) -- 4.3. Relations -- 4.3.1. Evoked and invoked frames (C. Fillmore) -- 4.3.2. Meaning potentials (J. Allwood) -- 5.1. Categorization -- 5.2. Schemata -- 5.2.1. Schemata as representational formats of non-specific modality -- 5.2.2. Shared features of frames and schemata -- 5.3. Frames as schemata: example analysis -- 6.1. Issues -- 6.2. Reference -- 6.2.1. Frames as a projection area of referentiality -- 6.2.2. Every word evokes a frame -- 6.3. Predication potential: slots -- 6.3.1. What are slots? -- 6.3.2. Hyperonym type reduction: determining slots -- 6.3.3. Example analysis -- 6.4. Explicit predications: fillers -- 6.4.1. When are predications explicit? -- 6.4.2. Linguistic manifestations -- 6.5. Implicit predications: default values -- 6.5.1. Recurrent schema instantiations: token and type frequency -- 6.5.2. "Cognitive trails" as phenomena of the third kind -- 6.5.3. Type frequency: an example -- 7.1. Preliminaries -- 7.1.1. Frames as an instrument of corpus-based analysis -- 7.1.2. Cognitive and discourse-related aspects of metaphors -- 7.2. "capitalism debate" -- 7.2.1. Discourse and corpus -- 7.2.2. Investigation period, discourse development, research corpus -- 7.2.3. Locust: a basic discourse-semantic figure -- 7.3. Methodological guidelines for the corpus-based analysis -- 7.3.1. Annotations -- 7.3.2. Predication analysis -- 7.3.3. Hyperonym type reduction -- 7.3.4. Classification of explicit predications -- 7.4. Empirical results -- 7.4.1. generic frame -- 7.4.2. input frames locust/s and financial investor/s -- 7.4.3. metaphor frame -- 7.5. Frame semantics and discourse analysis: some conclusions.
Summary
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word's meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore's definition of frames as both organizers of experience and tools for understanding, the monograph attempts to examine one of the most important concepts of Cognitive Linguistics in more detail. The point of departure is Fillmore's conception of "frames of understanding"--An approach to (cognitive) semantics that Fillmore developed from 1975 to 1
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9789027269645 (electronic bk.)
9027269645 (electronic bk.)
9027246645
9789027246646
9789027246646 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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