Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical Foundations and Descriptive Applications

Ziem, Alexander

ISBN 10: 9027246645 / ISBN 13: 9789027246646

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2014

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428 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical Foundations and Descriptive Applications
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027246645
• ISBN 13: 9789027246646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

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.