frame semantics框架语义学

developement
• The frame theory was firstly put forward and used in the field of artificial intelligence(AI). In the book A Framework for Representing Knowledge, Minsky stated that human knowledge is stored in mind in the form of knowledge structures, which he called frame. • Fillmore borrowed the notion of frame from the AI field and developed his own theory of frame in linguistics.
Applying frame semantics to college English vocabulary teaching
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1The Notion of Frame
• Petruck defines frame in his1996work • 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 rusults in all of them becoming avaliable(Petruck 1996:1)
basic concepts
• The basic assumption of Frame Semantics is that in order to understand the meaning of the words in a language we must first have knowledge of the conceptual structures,or semantic frames, which provide the background and motivation for their existence in the language and for their use in discourse.
present studies
• Present studies on frame semantics have covered the fields ranging from morphology to discourse analysis, translation and language acquisition. For the most part, studies on frame semantics focused on lexicography, especially computational lexicography.
Applying frame semantics to college English Vocabulary Teaching in China
• A model for English Vocabulary teaching • (1)the prior-framing stage, when we encounter the new words in context and use the context as cognitive information to help to evoke specific frames for further meaning understanding in the later stage
• Fillmore definedframe as “ any system of linguistic choices- the easiest cases being collections of words, but also including choices of grammatical rules or linguistic categories- that can get associated with prototypical instances of scenes” (Fillmore, 1975:124)
frame element
• A frame element is simply a regular participant, feature, or attribute of the kind of situation described by a frame • .eg. Marriage frame include husband, wife, wedding ceremony, wedding date, best man etc.
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• Eg. The audience of this TV program dwindled considerably in number with the change of hosts. • The target word dwindle expresses a change of the number of the audience, which was caused by the change of hosts. This information will contribute to the identification of a specific frame for the target word dwindle in our next stage.