COG SCI C101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Polysemy, George Lakoff
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Metaphor ii reading notes: johnson 1996 (march 1, 2016) Connection between learnability theory and semantic acquisition. 3 conventions: ideas/meanings are objects linguistic expressions are containers communication is sending. February 23, 2016 large linguistic structures contain the smaller structures of which they are composed; writers/speakers insert these smaller structures constituents are constants linguistic forms contain meaning becoming accessble is emerging. Meaning is transferred from one person to another via communication transmission of energy is transfer readers/listeners may acquire rms by interacting with linguistic forms achieving a purpose is acquiring a desired object, rms are possessions. Electric circuits are like flowing water or moving crowds of people . These metaphors are mappings , because they connect entities within a source and target domain e. g. love is a journey maps between travel companions in the source (the metaphor) and lovers in the target (the meaning)
