18.552, Books: Semantics: Coulson

[LINGUIST Network]

LINGUIST List: Vol-18-552. Mon Feb 19 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.552, Books: Semantics: Coulson

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project / Long Now Foundation  
         <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Hannah Morales <hannah at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 


===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 16-Feb-2007
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: Semantic Leaps: Coulson 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:49:12
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.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. $ 99.00 Comment: ISBN-13: 9780521643610
Paperback: ISBN: 0521027837 Pages: 318 Price: U.S. $ 48.00 Comment: ISBN-13: 9780521027830
Paperback: ISBN: 0521027837 Pages: 318 Price: U.K. £ 26.99 Comment: ISBN-13: 9780521027830


Abstract:

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains
in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic
aspects of online 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)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=23961


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Arnold          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Pagijong Press          
		http://pjbook.com	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 
	



-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-18-552