27.1097, Confs: Lexicography, Semantics/Brazil

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1097. Tue Mar 01 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1097, Confs: Lexicography, Semantics/Brazil

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:02:28
From: Tiago Torrent [tiago.torrent at ufjf.edu.br]
Subject: Frame-Based Accounts of Specialist Languages

Frame-Based Accounts of Specialist Languages 

Date: 05-Oct-2016 - 07-Oct-2016 
Location: Juiz de Fora - Minas Gerais, Brazil 
Contact: Marcin Grygiel 
Contact Email: mgrygiel at poczta.fm 
Meeting URL: http://www.ufjf.br/iccg9/home/theme-sessions/frame-based-accounts-of-specialist-languages/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

This theme session addresses the problem of how specialist languages, or their
fragments, can be represented and modeled by means of the frame-based
apparatus. The concept of ‘specialist languages’ is quite disputable in itself
and worthy of academic discussion. Opting for a more aligned methodology, we
aim at bringing these polarized views closer together. This should result in
finding a more satisfying compromise on how to define specialist languages and
related phenomena.

Specialist languages can be perceived as highly conventionalized, semi-natural
and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific,
predominantly formal, situations. A large number of them can be best
characterized by subject matter and semantic content, but the most important
distinctive element in their make-up seems to be the frame of context in which
they are embedded.

Specialist languages can be thought of as representations of micro-realities
which integrate specific linguistic expressions, expert knowledge, special
practices and particular socio-cultural settings. All of these elements seem
to be amenable to frame-based modeling in the form of dynamic scenarios with
their interactional properties. A cognitive frame refers to events, perceived
as schematized ‘scenes’ or ‘situations’, and has a form of a scenario
containing typical roles played by participants, objects manipulated by them
and background factors in which the events are anchored. As a result, frames
have the advantage of making explicit both the potential semantic and
syntactic behavior of specialist language units.

Frames are typically activated and indexed by words (or specialist
terminology) associated with them. By means of frames, a language-user
interprets her/his environment, formulates her/his own messages, understands
the messages of others, and accumulates or creates an internal model of
her/his world (Fillmore 1976: 23).Thus, frame-based approaches, more than
other accounts, allow for the dynamicity, inherent to specialist languages, to
be taken into consideration and are able to explain any specialist language in
terms of an on-going process rather than to represent it as a ready-made
product.

There have been a number of influential applications of Fillmore’s Frame
Semantics (Fillmore 1976, 1982, 1985; Fillmore & Atkins 1992) and previous
frame-based models to the study of specialist languages, specialized
discourse, specialized terminology, specialized knowledge and ontology (e.g.
Fillmore and Atkins 1992, Kralingen 1995, 1997; Faber 2012, 2014; Faber and
León-Araúz 2014; Diederich 2015). For example, in Faber’s Frame-Based
Terminology approach certain aspects of Frames Semantics are used to structure
specialized domains and create non-language-specific representations. Such
configurations form the conceptual meaning underlying specialized texts in
different languages, and thus facilitate specialized knowledge acquisition.

The aim of the proposed theme session is to discuss a possible contribution of
frame-based methodology to the study of specialist languages. We will be
especially interested in examples of how frames are used to model specialist
texts, discourses, terminology, knowledge, advertisements, practices,
procedures, behavior, decision-making processes and reasoning. Presentations
showing possible theoretical implications and potential problems with the
application of frame-based accounts to the study of specialist languages are
also highly encouraged.

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