scholarly journals Classifier categories reflect but do not affect conceptual organization.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Speed ◽  
Jidong Chen ◽  
Falk Huettig ◽  
Asifa Majid
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Organization

scholarly journals Embodiment und Un-Höflichkeit. Kognitive Aspekte kulturell geprägter Konzepte

2019 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 247-260
Author(s):  
Anna Sulikowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
Human Specific

Eine der Grundprämissen der Kognitiven Linguistik bildet die Embodiment-These, die besagt, dass die menschliche Kognition und konzeptuelle Organisation sich aus der Art und Weise ergeben, in denen unsere artenspezifischen Körper mit der Umwelt interagieren. Das Fundament des konzeptuellen Systems eines Menschen baut also auf der Wahrnehmung, Sensomotorik, auf körperlicher und sozialer Erfahrung auf. Im folgenden Beitrag wird auf die Frage eingegangen, inwieweit kulturell geprägte Konzepte wie die Höflichkeit und Unhöflichkeit embodied sind. Der Analyse werden Idiome sowie figurative Einwortlexeme unterzogen.Embodiment and im-politeness: Cognitive aspects of culture-bound conceptsOne of the most important assumptions within the Cognitive Lingustics is the embodiment thesis, which postulates the human’s cognition and conceptual organization being formed by the contact of the body with the environment. The basis for the human-specific conceptual system is the perception, sensomotorics and the physical and social experience. The article discusses the question of embodiment of the culture-based concepts like politeness and impoliteness. In the scope of the conducted analysis are idioms and figurative one-word lexems.

scholarly journals A unitary account of conceptual representations of animate/inanimate categories

Psihologija ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanja Kovic ◽  
Kim Plunkett ◽  
Gert Westermann
Keyword(s):  
Time Window ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Inanimate Object ◽  
General Representation ◽  
Object Processing ◽  
Semantic Organization ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
The Brain

In this paper we present an ERP study examining the underlying nature of semantic representation of animate and inanimate objects. Time-locking ERP signatures to the onset of auditory stimuli we found topological similarities in animate and inanimate object processing. Moreover, we found no difference between animates and inanimates in the N400 amplitude, when mapping more specific to more general representation (visual to auditory stimuli). These studies provide further evidence for the theory of unitary semantic organization, but no support for the feature-based prediction of segregated conceptual organization. Further comparisons of animate vs. inanimate matches and within-vs. between-category mismatches revealed following results: processing of animate matches elicited more positivity than processing of inanimates within the N400 time-window; also, inanimate mismatches elicited a stronger N400 than did animate mismatches. Based on these findings we argue that one of the possible explanations for finding different and sometimes contradictory results in the literature regarding processing and representations of animates and inanimates in the brain could lie in the variability of selected items within each of the categories, that is, homogeneity of the categories.

Affective-Cognitive Consistency and Self-Conceptual Structure

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. De Chenne
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Cognitive Consistency ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Instrument Control

This study evaluated a model of self-conceptual organization. The model, an adaptation of the affective-cognitive theory of social attitudes, predicted the maintenance of consistency in the perceived organization or structure of self-conceptual items. Undergraduate subjects ( N = 74) completed a questionnaire assessing self-conceptual structure and then returned one week later to complete a similar instrument. Control subjects were simply retested; subjects in four experimental groups completed the posttest following adoption of roles designed to create different types of imbalance in self-conceptual organization. Pretest results indicated a moderately consistent structuring of self-conceptual items. In response to the various types of role-induced imbalance, subjects tended to reestablish consistency through a significant reorganization of self-conceptions.

Integrating corpus data in dynamic knowledge bases

Terminology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maribel Tercedor ◽  
Clara I. López Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
Lexical Information ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Design Retrieval

Terminological information is a key element in the construction of a knowledge base. In order for a knowledge base to be useful to different users, terminological information should be extracted from corpora so as to reflect the different pragmatic nuances. Puertoterm is a knowledge base in the field of Coastal Engineering, which has made use of corpus information to develop terminological entries. It also includes contextual information in such a way that this information interacts with other elements of the knowledge base. We describe the methodology followed in the project regarding corpus design, retrieval of lexical information, conceptual organization of the domain of Coastal Engineering, and the elaboration of terminological entries.

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