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Lakoff, George. 1980. Getting the whole picture: The role of mental images in semantics and pragmatics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 6 : 191–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

meaning theory | pragmatic theory | prototype

Annotation

L. argues that there are conventional mental images, as opposed to merely individual ones, and that conventional mental images are associated with linguistic expressions and are thus essential in linguistic semantics and pragmatics.