Semantic Leaps
Subtitle: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521643610
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Psychological aspects; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Semantics--Psychological aspects; Frames (Linguistics); Cognitive grammar; Concepts; Semantics
First sentence: Uttered by Neil Armstrong just before he set foot on the moon, this quote demonstrates how the same action can be interpreted in radically different ways.
Description: 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.