Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual B. Coulson Hardcover<|

Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual B. Coulson Hardcover<|

Semantic LeapsFrame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction\nAuthor(s): Seana Coulson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521643610, 978-0521643610\nSynopsis\nSemantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, Coulson identifies two related sets of processes: frame-shifting and conceptual blending. Frame-shifting is semantic reanalysis in which existing elements in the contextual representation are reorganized into a new frame. Conceptual blending is a set of cognitive operations for combining partial cognitive models. By addressing linguistic phenomena often ignored in traditional meaning research, Coulson explains how processes of cross-domain mapping, frame-shifting and conceptual blending enhance the explanatory adequacy of traditional frame-.

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