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Cognitive Semantics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Focuses on structural patterns of linguistic forms
      - Traditionally associated with generative grammar
      - Limited integration with conceptual and psychological concerns
    - - Views language from the perspective of general cognitive systems
      - Addresses semantic memory, concept associativity, category structure, inference generation, and contextual knowledge
      - Lacks systematic conceptual structuring in language
    - - Concerned with how conceptual content is organized in language
      - Addresses basic conceptual categories, semantic structure, and interrelationships of conceptual structures
      - Aims to ascertain the global integrated system of conceptual structuring in language
- - - - Open-class forms contribute rich conceptual content
      - Closed-class forms determine the structure within the conceptual complex
      - Shifting one class while keeping the other highlights the content/structure division
- - - - Configurational structure
        
        Configurational structure delineates the basic structure of a scene or event
        
        It provides the basic framework for understanding structured scenes
    - - Perspective point
        
        directs mental eyes to look at a structured scene or event
        
        includes conceptual categories like perspectival location, distance, and motive state
    - - Distribution of attention
        
        directs a listener's attention differentially over a structured scene
        
        patterns include focal attention, level of synthesis, window of attention, and attentional nesting
        
        Focal Attention
        
        Involves center-surround patterns, with a focus on specific elements
        
        Grammatical relations like subject status influence the focal attention within a scene
        
        Different selections of subjects can shift attention within the same event
        
        Level of Synthesis
        
        different levels of granularity, either Gestalt or componential
        
        Window of Attention
        
        Involves foregrounding specific portions of a scene through explicit mention
        
        The rest of the scene is backgrounded by omission.
        
        Attentional Nesting
        
        Similar to nesting in configuration and perspective.
        
        Attention on one element is hierarchically embedded within attention on another element.
- - - - Coextension paths
        
        Represents spatially extended objects in terms of a path over their extent
      - Emanation paths
        
        Involves the conceptualization of an intangible line emerging from a source object, passing through space, and terminating on a target object
        
        Different subtypes, such as demonstrative paths, radiation paths, and shadow paths, illustrate this pattern.
        
        The direction of emanation is influenced by an "active-determinative" principle.
- - - - Imposing concepts based on experiences of bodies interacting with environments or psychological/neural structure
      - Different ideas of embodiment: bulk encounter, neural infrastructure, concreteness as basic, anti-objectivism.