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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Semantics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Semantics is often opposed to syntax, in which case the former pertains to what something means while the latter pertains to the formal structure/patterns in which something is expressed (for example written or spoken).
		Semantics is distinguished from ontology (study of existence) in being about the use of a word more than the nature of the entity referenced by the word.
		Semantics is a subfield of linguistics that is traditionally defined as the study of meaning of (parts of) words, phrases, sentences, and texts.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Semantics (403 words)

	Cognitive linguistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conceptual semantics, pursued by generative linguist Ray Jackendoff is related because of its active psychological realism and the incorporation of prototype structure and images.
		A further complication arises because the terminology of cognitive linguistics is not entirely stable, both because it is a relatively new field and because it interfaces with a number of other disciplines.
		In Metaphor in cognitive linguistics, Steen and Gibbs (eds.).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cognitive_linguistics (456 words)

	Cognitive_linguistics
		In linguistics and cognitive science, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the currently dominant school of linguistics that views the important essence of language as innately based in evolutionarily-developed and speciated faculties, and seeks explanations that advance or fit well into the current understandings of the human mind.
		The guiding principle behind this area of linguistics is that language creation, learning, and usage must be explained by reference to concepts in regard to human cognition in general —the basic underlying mental processes that apply not only to language, but to all other areas of human intelligence.
		This can be considered a more developed form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in that not only are language and cognition mutually influencial, but also embodied experience and environmental factors of the bioregion.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cognitive_linguistics.html (430 words)

	Kant's Theory of Judgment
		A cognitive faculty is spontaneous in that whenever it is externally stimulated by raw unstructured sensory data as inputs, it then automatically organizes or "synthesizes" those data in an unprecedented way relative to those inputs, thereby yielding novel structured cognitions as outputs (B1-2, A50/B74, B132, B152).
		Judgment is … the mediate cognition of an object, hence the representation of a representation of it.
		It should be noted that the apriority of a cognition in this sense is perfectly consistent with all sorts of associated sensory impressions and also with the actual presence of sensory matter in that cognition, so long as neither the form nor the semantic content is strictly determined by those sensory impressions.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/kant-judgment (6021 words)

	Construction Grammar Website
		The Inherent Semantics of Argument Structure: The Case of the English Ditransitive Construction.
		Johnson, Christopher, R. "The semantics of place, time and way and their strange syntactic behavior: A Construction Grammar analysis." In: Barbara A. Fox, Dan Jurafsky and Laura A. Michaelis (eds.), Cognition and Function in Language, 220-234.
		On the relationship between semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical roles in English and French." In M. Shibatani and S.A. Thompson (eds.), Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics.
	www.constructiongrammar.org /bibliography.htm (3743 words)

	S. Narayanan's ICSI page
		Simulation Semantics: A neurally motivated compuational framework for metaphor, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), La Rioja, Spain, July 2003.
		Active Semantics for Language Understanding (Slides from my Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium Talk).
		AAAI Fall-Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Action, MIT Nov., 1996.
	www.icsi.berkeley.edu /~snarayan (1121 words)

	Shadow » 2002 » August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Logographs are identifying symbols showing a system of relationships between things.
		At the close of the nineteenth century, the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in reading were central topics of theory and research (e.g., Cattell 1885; Pillsbury 1897).
		One of the reasons that reading a good novel or listening to an interesting lecture can be a pleasurable experience is because we are (blissfully) unaware of the cognitive work we do in understanding individual sentences and relating them to the discourse context.
	www.garyfeng.com /wordpress/2002/08 (1441 words)

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