• Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Cognitive semantics holds that language...
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    Formal semantics relies on logic and mathematics to provide precise frameworks of the relation between language and meaning. Cognitive semantics examines...
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  • denotations. Cognitive semantics is the linguistic paradigm/framework that since the 1980s has generated the most studies in lexical semantics, introducing...
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  • and cognitive linguists like John Haiman and Adele Goldberg, however, make an argument against generative grammar and truth-conditional semantics. As...
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  • Cognitive grammar is a cognitive approach to language developed by Ronald Langacker, which hypothesizes that grammar, semantics, and lexicon exist on...
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    Leonard Talmy (category Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society)
    prominent American linguist who has helped found and develop the area of cognitive semantics. His research has covered typologies and universals of semantic structure;...
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  • (both lexical and sentential) among others. Prototype Semantics Cognitive Semantics Cognitive Linguistics Principle of compositionality Ferdinand de...
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  • Coseriu, E., Willems, K. & Leuschner, T. (2000) Structural Semantics and 'Cognitive' Semantics, in Logos and Language Dirven, R. & Taylor, J.R. (1988):...
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  • Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner's blending theory, a theory within cognitive semantics. Base space, also known as reality space, presents the interlocutors'...
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  • Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology...
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  • measure of control over our own cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses. Proponents characterize general semantics as an antidote to certain kinds...
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  • Construction grammar (category Cognitive linguistics)
    grammatical construction is made up of conceptual structures postulated in cognitive semantics: image-schemas, frames, conceptual metaphors, conceptual metonymies...
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  • Mentalist postulate (category Semantics)
    cognitive semantics. Semantic theories implicitly or explicitly incorporating the mentalist postulate include force dynamics and conceptual semantics...
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  • propositional attitudes. To an extent, the theoretical underpinnings to cognitive semantics (including the notion of semantic framing) suggest the influence...
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  • Semantics within psychology is the study of how meaning is stored in the mind. Semantic memory is a type of long-term declarative memory that refers to...
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    Ray Jackendoff (category Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society)
    mind and cognition (the main purpose of cognitive linguistics). Jackendoff's research deals with the semantics of natural language, its bearing on the...
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    how "cognitive" is used in some traditions of analytic philosophy, where "cognitive" has to do only with formal rules and truth-conditional semantics. The...
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  • Force dynamics (category Semantics)
    works. Talmy places force dynamics within the broader context of cognitive semantics. In his view, a general idea underlying this discipline is the existence...
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  • A cognitive distortion is a thought that causes a person to perceive reality inaccurately due to being exaggerated or irrational. Cognitive distortions...
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  • Apocalypse". Generative semantics is no longer practiced under that name, though many of its central ideas have blossomed in the cognitive linguistics tradition...
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    On the other hand, cognitive semantics explains linguistic meaning via aspects of general cognition, drawing on ideas from cognitive science such as prototype...
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  • syntax–semantics interface is the interaction between syntax and semantics. Its study encompasses phenomena that pertain to both syntax and semantics, with...
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    for statistical semantics. Although the distributional hypothesis originated in linguistics, it is now receiving attention in cognitive science especially...
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    Peter Gärdenfors (category Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society)
    theory, philosophy of science, concept formation, conceptual spaces, cognitive semantics, and the evolution of cognition and language. His son Simon Gärdenfors...
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  • operationalization of generative grammar), morphology (e.g., two-level morphology), semantics (e.g., Lesk algorithm), reference (e.g., within Centering Theory) and...
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  • languages. In cognitive science, some researchers rely on the insights of formal semantics to study the nature of the mind. Formal semantics has its roots...
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  • Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy: Challenging Cognitive Semantics. Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], volume 49. Berlin: Walter...
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  • Biosemiotics Film theory Film semiotics Linguistics Semiotics Monograph Cognitive Semantics Francesco Casetti Christian Metz (critic) An Essay Concerning Human...
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  • cognition - cognitive behaviour therapy - cognitive ergonomics - cognitive neuroscience - cognitive psychology - cognitive science - cognitive science of...
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  • read as "necessarily P {\displaystyle P} ". In the standard relational semantics for modal logic, formulas are assigned truth values relative to a possible...
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