Frame semantics

Miriam R. L. Petruck
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Frame semantics is a research program in empirical semantics which emphasizes the continuities between language and experience, and provides a framework for presenting the results of that research. A ‘frame’ is any system of concepts related in such a way that to understand any one concept it is necessary to understand the entire system; introducing any one concept results in all of them becoming available. In frame semantics, a word represents a category of experience; part of the research endeavor is the uncovering of reasons a speech community has for creating the category represented by the word and including that reason in the description of the meaning of the word.

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