17.3466, Books: Semantics: Coulson

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Date: 15-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Semantic Leaps: Coulson 

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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:44:46
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Semantic Leaps: Coulson 

Title: Semantic Leaps 
Subtitle: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Seana Coulson

Hardback: ISBN: 0521643619 Pages: 318 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521027837 Pages: 318 Price: U.S. $ 48.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521027837 Pages: 318 Price: U.K. £ 26.99

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
behaviour. 

Acknowledgments; 
1. Semantic leaps; 
Part I. Frame-Shifting: 
2. Frame-shifting and models of language processing; 
3. Models of sentential integration; 
4.  Frame-shifting and the brain; 
Part II. Conceptual Blending: 
5. Conceptual blending in modified noun phrases; 
6. Conceptual blending in metaphor and analogy; 
7. Counterfactual conditionals; 
Part III. Applications: Blending, Framing, and Blaming: 
8. Framing in moral discourse; 
9. Frame-shifting and scalar implicature; 
10. The space structuring model; 
Bibliography; 
Index. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Written In: English  (eng)

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