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Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications

By Alexander Ziem

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2014
ISBN
9027246645, 9789027246646
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2108906 bytes)
Series
Human Cognitive Processing
Pages
440\441
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-10-25 23:05:52
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика

Description

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 1985. The envisaged Understanding Semantics (“U-Semantics”) is a semantic theory sui generis whose significance for linguistic research cannot be overestimated. In addition to its crucial role in the development of the theoretical foundations of U-semantics, corpus-based frame semantics can be applied fruitfully in the investigation of knowledge-building processes in text and discourse.

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