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Allan, Keith – Language Sciences, 2010
Rob MacLaury's Vantage Theory, VT, models the way in which a cognizer constructs, recalls, uses, and modifies a category in terms of point of view or vantage. Alongside of VT, there is place for the kind of semantic specification found in the lexicon. VT2 [Allan, Keith, 2002. "Vantage theory, VT2, and number." "Language Sciences" 24(5-6), 679-703…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistics, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Grace, Caroline A.; Glaz, Adam – Language Sciences, 2010
This study explores some specific aspects of compatibility between cognitive models. Robert E. MacLaury's theory of vantages as arrangements of coordinates and Lakoff's concept of radial categories are mutually reinforcing to an analysis of semantic polysemy. Vantage Theory (VT) includes the notions of "zooming in" and "zooming out", allowing…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spanish, Models, Cultural Influences
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Fabiszak, Malgorzata – Language Sciences, 2010
This paper is an application of Robert E. MacLaury's Vantage Theory (VT) to the analysis of real life spoken discourse. It utilizes Dennis R. Preston's (1994) modification of MacLaury's VT. It elucidates how cognitive processes of coordinate selection and combination contribute to the on-line construction of category membership in the abstract…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
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Winters, Margaret E. – Language Sciences, 2010
Vantage Theory (VT) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) both rely crucially on the cognitive phenomenon of categorization as well as on the semantic/pragmatic notion of participant point of view in making claims about human linguistic production and perception. In this paper these commonalities of commitment are explored, as are the differences in the ways…
Descriptors: Semantics, Old English, Pragmatics, Classification
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Stanulewicz, Danuta – Language Sciences, 2010
The Polish set of terms for blue includes, inter alia, the following adjectives: "niebieski" "blue", "blekitny" "(sky) blue", "granatowy" "navy blue", "lazurowy" "azure", "modry" "(intense) blue" and "siny" "(grey) violet-blue". The adjective "niebieski" is the basic term; however, it shares some of its functions with "blekitny", which is…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Negative Attitudes, Color, Semantics
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Tribushinina, Elena – Language Sciences, 2010
The central claim of this paper is that Vantage Theory is able to provide a much-needed explanatory account of the seemingly unrelated differences between lexical and morphological antonyms of dimensional adjectives in Slavic languages. In a case study, I compare two antonyms of the Russian adjective "vysokij" "high", a morphologically unrelated…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Russian, Case Studies, Color
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Adachi, Nobuko – Language Sciences, 2010
How do people define ethnicity and its membership? Primordialists argue that people group themselves using "primal" or permanent characteristics like physical similarity or a common language, religion, or history. Social mobilizationists, however, see ethnicity as more situational social phenomena, as an informal organization whereby…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Linguistics, Political Power, Minority Groups
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Anishchanka, Alena – Language Sciences, 2010
The article presents a usage-based analysis of color attribution, i.e. the construal of the relation between color property and an entity to which it is attributed in painting descriptions. The study is based on the corpus of 100 catalog entries written for American art museums. It focuses on the two most frequent morpho-syntactic patterns in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Museums, Classification, Content Analysis
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Niewiara, Aleksandra – Language Sciences, 2010
The paper investigates Polish punk and hip hop (rap) song lyrics broken down into frequency lists. In an analysis inspired by MacLaury's view of categorization, the construals of punk and hip hop worldviews are shown to vary in the distance of the observer from the world, the width of the viewing frame, as well as the granularity and density of…
Descriptors: Singing, Form Classes (Languages), Polish, Popular Culture
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Johnson, Marnie L. – Language Sciences, 2002
Synthesizes MacLaury's vantage theory, Barsalou's frame theory, and the relation between similarity, commonality, and difference. Frame theory elaborates on the structural components of mental representations, while vantage theory elaborates on the processing by which these components are integrated. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Theory, Psychology
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Sampson, Gloria – Language Sciences, 1999
Currently, the language sciences place together four different forms of mental activity on one plane of language, which results in confusion. This paper presents arguments from metaphysics, hermeneutics, and semiotics to demonstrate that there are actually three planes of language (a biologically-based information processing plane, a literal…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Hermeneutics, Language Patterns
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Castel, Philippe; Lacassagne, Marie-Francoise; Sales-Wuillemin, Edith – Language Sciences, 2002
Shows that the categorical processes brought to light by MacLaury (1995, 1997) make it possible to account for differentiated activations of social representation. Considers the issue of unified versus dichotomized interpretations of data when these foster more than one view of a topic, and suggests that vantage theory settles the question in…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Theory, Research Methodology
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MacLaury, Robert E. – Language Sciences, 2002
Introduces this special issue of the journal, which focuses on vantage theory. Articles in this issue demonstrate applications of vantage theory across diverse realms of cognition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Color, Concept Formation
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Nyan, T. – Language Sciences, 2002
The question of innateness, which naturally arises in respect of the method of category construction proposed by vantage theory, is notoriously difficult. Discusses some of the problems inherent in this type of issue, along with attendant assumptions. Then, turns to what might constitute possible grounding for vantage theory. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Brain, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Color