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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953304203321

Titolo

Meaning and cognition : a multidisciplinary approach / / edited by Liliana Albertazzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000

ISBN

9786612254895

9789027299727

9027299722

9781282254893

1282254898

9780585461847

0585461848

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

269 p. : ill

Collana

Converging evidence in language and communication research, ISSN 1566-7774 ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbertazziLiliana

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Meaning and Cognition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Which semantics? -- Chapter 2. Why mind is necessary: Conceptualization,grammar and linguistic semantics -- Chapter 3. What is Montague semantics? -- Chapter 4. Construal operations in linguistics and artificial intelligence -- Chapter 5. Salience phenomena in the lexicon: A typology -- Chapter 6. Prototypicality, typicality and context -- Chapter 7. Directions and perspective points in spatial perception -- Chapter 8. Force and emotion -- Chapter 9. The geometric roots of semantics -- Chapter 10. The history and future of field semantics: From Giordano Bruno to dynamic semantics -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Name index -- Subject index.

Sommario/riassunto

Various features of the space of semantic conceptualization, and specifically position, obstacles, path and motion, are discussed in the essay. These characteristics of conceptual space are applied to the dynamics of field semantics on the basis of concepts from Gestalt



theory. Wildgen's main contentions are that there exist different geometries of lexical fields, and that there is a linear array of ideas, concepts and words, the extremes of which may be glued together. He argues these theses by drawing on such authors as Lullus (linear field), Bruno (regular surface, as a sort of generative mechanism of infinite spaces filling the system), Peirce and Lewin. Some aspects of Wildgen's treatment - those concerning antonomy, hyponomy, synonymy and metonymy - are also covered by Violi's essay in this book. Others - in particular the schemes of path and barrier, the concept of routes - are discussed in the essays by Albertazzi (force dynamics), Croft and Wood (phenomenological and Gestalt approach) and Peruzzi (semantic fields).