Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications
Alexander Ziem
[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.
Alexander Ziem
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Ziem plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 A multilingual approach to the interaction between frames and constructions: Towards a joint framework and methodology Constructions and Frames 15:1, pp. 59–90 | Article
The comparison of constructions across languages faces a major challenge: Both similarities and differences can appear on the whole scale from form to meaning. In this paper, we propose an approach combining the descriptive and explanatory power of Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics by… read more
2020 Construction mining: Identifying construction candidates for the German constructicon The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 5–16 | Article
The German Constructicon Project (www.german-constructicon.de) aims at documenting grammatical constructions in contemporary standard German on the basis of annotated corpus examples, including relations between constructions and between constructions and evoked semantic frames. So far, the… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Constructing a constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages, Lyngfelt, Benjamin, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent (eds.), pp. 183–228 | Chapter
This chapter discusses a number of important issues underlying and motivating the development of a constructicon for German. More specifically, it presents an overview of some typologically interesting facets of German syntax such as word order, topological fields, case, and passives. Taking a… read more
2011 Cognitive science meets language pedagogy Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations, Callies, Marcus, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer (eds.), pp. 249–278 | Article
Bringing together insights from cognitive schema theories and studies on vocabulary acquisition in a foreign/second language (L2), this chapter singles out the importance of semantic schemas for teaching and learning word meanings. Its main theoretical hypothesis is that cognitive schemas… read more
2011 Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, Schönefeld, Doris (ed.), pp. 195–220 | Article
The chapter focuses on the problem of meaning determination of German idioms that consist of at least two words and contain a body part term as a constituent. Such so-called “somatisms” make up a considerable part of the phrasemes in German and English. What do these terms in idiomatic somatisms… read more