Coulson Seana. Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction

Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xiv, 304 pp. — ISBN: 0-521-64361-9.Semantic 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. 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-based systems for natural language processing. The focus is on how the constructive processes speakers use to assemble, link, and adapt simple cognitive models underlie a broad range of productive language behavior.Semantic Leaps
Productive Language Behavior
Background
Connections
Frame-Shifting
Frame-Shifting and Models of Language Processing
Approaches to Comprehension
Frame-Shifting in One-Line Jokes
Conclusions
Models of Sentential Integration
Frame-Shifting in Text Processing
Frame-Shifting in Sentential Integration
Frame-Shifting and the Brain
Neuropsychology
Event-Related Brain Potentials
Conceptual Blending
Trashcan Basketball
Blending and Integration Networks
Conceptual Blending in Modified Noun Phrases
Nominal Compounds
Predicating and Nonpredicating Adjectives
Privative Adjectives
Conclusions
Conceptual Blending in Metaphor and Analogy
Blending in Metaphors
Retrospective ProjectionsCounterfactual Conditionals
Truth, Acceptability, and Conditionals
Analogy and Identity
Frame-Shifting and Scalar Reasoning
Counterfactual Selves
Conclusions
Applications: Blending, Framing, And Blaming
Framing in Moral Discourse
Cultural Models of Action, Responsibility, and Punishment
Framing and the Morality of Abortion
Mere Semantics
9 Frame-Shifting and Scalar Implicature
Scalar Implicature
Return to the Rape Exception

10 [b][i]The Space Structuring Model
My Dinner with Rodney
Turning the Cat on Its Head