Publications

Publication details [#14186]

Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke. 2000. Semantic fields and frames: Historical explorations of the interface between language, action, and cognition. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (2) : 125–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | cognitive linguistics | field semantics | frame semantics | semantics2

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A comparison of the development of frame and field semantics, including the resulting semantic theories. It is observed that contemporary frame and field semantics primarily examine the conceptual and pragmatic grounding or framing of lexical fields in our sociocultural practices, thereby obscuring insights into semantic fields developed in the past.