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Semantic leaps : frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction / Seana Coulson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521643619 (hbk.)
  • 9780521643610 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.43
LOC classification:
  • P325.5.P78 C68 2001
Contents:
1. Semantic Leaps -- Pt. 1. Frame-Shifting -- 2. Frame-Shifting and Models of Language Processing -- 3. Models of Sentential Integration -- 4. Frame-Shifting and the Brain -- Pt. 2. Conceptual Blending -- 5. Conceptual Blending in Modified Noun Phrases -- 6. Conceptual Blending in Metaphor and Analogy -- 7. Counterfactual Conditionals -- Pt. 3. Applications: Blending, Framing, and Blaming -- 8. Framing in Moral Discourse -- 9. Frame-Shifting and Scalar Implicature -- 10. The Space Structuring Model.
Summary: This volume explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. The book concentrates on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, and identifies two related sets of processes.
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Books Books Centeral Library First floor - Languages 401.43 C.S.S 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 11254

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.

1. Semantic Leaps -- Pt. 1. Frame-Shifting -- 2. Frame-Shifting and Models of Language Processing -- 3. Models of Sentential Integration -- 4. Frame-Shifting and the Brain -- Pt. 2. Conceptual Blending -- 5. Conceptual Blending in Modified Noun Phrases -- 6. Conceptual Blending in Metaphor and Analogy -- 7. Counterfactual Conditionals -- Pt. 3. Applications: Blending, Framing, and Blaming -- 8. Framing in Moral Discourse -- 9. Frame-Shifting and Scalar Implicature -- 10. The Space Structuring Model.

This volume explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. The book concentrates on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, and identifies two related sets of processes.

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