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Comments: The role of attention in lexical semantics

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Summary, in English

I take up the roles of the world, the mind and the society in my semantic theory. I show how semantic differences between languages can be seen as attending to different parts of event structures. The role of the emotion domain in relation to the meaning of pejoratives is discussed. Finally, the idea that articles in language should be seen as an extension of pointing is shown to be congenial with my theory of semantics based on conceptual spaces.

Department/s

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

269-276

Publication/Series

Croatian Journal of Philosophy

Volume

XIV

Issue

41

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Kruzak D O O

Topic

  • Learning
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Lexical semantics
  • conceptual spaces
  • meeting of minds
  • attention
  • pointing
  • cognitive linguistics
  • verb-framed language
  • satellite-framed language
  • pejorative
  • emotion
  • defi nite article
  • indefi nite article.

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1333-1108