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Encyclopaedic Meaning project |
Ideas from cognitive grammar |
Base |
Domain |
Immediate scope |
Profile |
Scope of predication |
Connotation |
Denotation |
Dictionary meaning |
Encyclopaedic meaning |
Frame semantics |
Frame evocation |
Framing |
Highlighting |
Semantic frame |
Mental space theory |
Structural semantics |
Windowing of attention |
In frame semantics, highlighting is the relationship between a sign and its denotative content. That is the sign evokes a semantic frame of encyclopaedic meaning and highlights the denotative concept against that frame.
Bibliography[]
- Fillmore, Charles J. (1982). "Frame semantics". In The Linguistic Society of Korea, eds. Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Seoul: Hanshin. 111-37.