The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions... more The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions: (i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositional/compositional semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational nature; (ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i); (iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic, semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and (v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositional-computational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following
set of questions... more The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions: (i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational nature; (ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i); (iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic, semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and (v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture? tical reflection. The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following
set of questions... more The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions: 41 (i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational nature; (ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i); (iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic, semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and (v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture? The answer that is sought is directed towards: (a) Finding in the (methodological) Partial Autonomy Hypothesis by Harder (1999) elements for strengthening the descriptive adequacy of embodied Cognitive Linguistics, avoiding certain problems caused by the syntax-semanticspragmatics continuism; 41 This discussion is part of the research program in Logic and Natural Language of the Graduate Program in Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS. The text presented here is a summarized version of a more detailed argumentation that is under construction. Cristina Lopes Perna 163 (b) Raising the hypothesis of a Relevance Theory rebuilt as an interface theory based on the Principle of Relevance – a principle capable of surviving at a computational level without committing to a modular architecture. Based on these inquiries, the aim is to provoke a discussion that surpasses the level of the theories in themselves, towards a broader metatheoretical reflection. The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
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This essay based on a version of Frame Semantics, aims at: (a) establishing relations be... more Abstract This essay based on a version of Frame Semantics, aims at: (a) establishing relations between the concepts of TERRORISM and VIOLENCE concerning theoretical and methodological discussions constitutive of the sub-project “Metaphor, empathy and the constant threat of urban violence in Brazil”, which is part of a larger research entitled “Living with Uncertainty: metaphor and the dynamics of empathy in discourse”; (b) justifying the incorporation of semantic-epistemic relations and semantic roles in the analysis of the corpus of the research project for the treatment of conceptualization processes in usage-based semantic models; and (c) justifying the incorporation of a metalanguage for the treatment of values or axiological systems associated to frames in the conceptualization of VIOLENCE.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect on the character of embodiment in the framework of ... more Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect on the character of embodiment in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics based on Lakoff, collaborators and interlocutors. Initially I characterize the embodied mind, via cognitive experientialism. In these terms, the theory shapes how human beings build and process knowledge structures which regulate their individual and collective lives. Next, the Neural Theory of Language in which embodiment is rebuilt from a five level paradigm, where structured connectionism carries on the very burden of computational description and explanation is discussed. From these assumption, classical problems about computational implementations for models of natural language functioning as reductionist-physicalist approaches, I then conclude by assuming that embodiment, as an investigation phenomenon, shouldn’t be formulated in terms of levels, being treated as interfaces instead, at such manner that: (a) the epistemological commitments should be synchronically sustained in all interfaces of the investigation paradigm; (b) the conventional computational level should be taken as one of the problems which has to be treated in the structured connectionism plan; (c) the strategic reduction levels paradigm and the results obtained from it might imply a kind of modularization of the program of research itself; e (d) the modules would be interdependent only as a result of the reductionist proposal. As a result, I assume that it is possible to do Cognitive Linguistics without adhering to structured connectionism, or to neurocomputacional simulation, as long as one would operate with interfaces constructions between domains of investigation and not with a reductionist features paradigm treated in terms of “levels”
The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions... more The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions: (i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositional/compositional semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational nature; (ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i); (iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic, semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and (v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositional-computational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following
set of questions... more The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions: (i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational nature; (ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i); (iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic, semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and (v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture? tical reflection. The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following
set of questions... more The present text is oriented towards a reflection constructed from the following set of questions: 41 (i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational nature; (ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i); (iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic, semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and (v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture? The answer that is sought is directed towards: (a) Finding in the (methodological) Partial Autonomy Hypothesis by Harder (1999) elements for strengthening the descriptive adequacy of embodied Cognitive Linguistics, avoiding certain problems caused by the syntax-semanticspragmatics continuism; 41 This discussion is part of the research program in Logic and Natural Language of the Graduate Program in Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS. The text presented here is a summarized version of a more detailed argumentation that is under construction. Cristina Lopes Perna 163 (b) Raising the hypothesis of a Relevance Theory rebuilt as an interface theory based on the Principle of Relevance – a principle capable of surviving at a computational level without committing to a modular architecture. Based on these inquiries, the aim is to provoke a discussion that surpasses the level of the theories in themselves, towards a broader metatheoretical reflection. The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
Abstract
This essay based on a version of Frame Semantics, aims at: (a) establishing relations be... more Abstract This essay based on a version of Frame Semantics, aims at: (a) establishing relations between the concepts of TERRORISM and VIOLENCE concerning theoretical and methodological discussions constitutive of the sub-project “Metaphor, empathy and the constant threat of urban violence in Brazil”, which is part of a larger research entitled “Living with Uncertainty: metaphor and the dynamics of empathy in discourse”; (b) justifying the incorporation of semantic-epistemic relations and semantic roles in the analysis of the corpus of the research project for the treatment of conceptualization processes in usage-based semantic models; and (c) justifying the incorporation of a metalanguage for the treatment of values or axiological systems associated to frames in the conceptualization of VIOLENCE.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect on the character of embodiment in the framework of ... more Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect on the character of embodiment in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics based on Lakoff, collaborators and interlocutors. Initially I characterize the embodied mind, via cognitive experientialism. In these terms, the theory shapes how human beings build and process knowledge structures which regulate their individual and collective lives. Next, the Neural Theory of Language in which embodiment is rebuilt from a five level paradigm, where structured connectionism carries on the very burden of computational description and explanation is discussed. From these assumption, classical problems about computational implementations for models of natural language functioning as reductionist-physicalist approaches, I then conclude by assuming that embodiment, as an investigation phenomenon, shouldn’t be formulated in terms of levels, being treated as interfaces instead, at such manner that: (a) the epistemological commitments should be synchronically sustained in all interfaces of the investigation paradigm; (b) the conventional computational level should be taken as one of the problems which has to be treated in the structured connectionism plan; (c) the strategic reduction levels paradigm and the results obtained from it might imply a kind of modularization of the program of research itself; e (d) the modules would be interdependent only as a result of the reductionist proposal. As a result, I assume that it is possible to do Cognitive Linguistics without adhering to structured connectionism, or to neurocomputacional simulation, as long as one would operate with interfaces constructions between domains of investigation and not with a reductionist features paradigm treated in terms of “levels”
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semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and
(v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositional-computational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
set of questions:
(i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with
autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional
semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational
nature;
(ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates
cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i);
(iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of
Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms
of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic,
semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum;
(iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a
computational level operationally and circumstantially; and
(v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some
kind of compositionality;
(vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of
Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational
level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
tical reflection.
The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability
of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
set of questions: 41
(i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with
autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional
semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational
nature;
(ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates
cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i);
(iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of
Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms
of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic,
semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum;
(iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a
computational level operationally and circumstantially; and
(v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some
kind of compositionality;
(vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of
Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational
level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
The answer that is sought is directed towards:
(a) Finding in the (methodological) Partial Autonomy Hypothesis by Harder (1999)
elements for strengthening the descriptive adequacy of embodied Cognitive
Linguistics, avoiding certain problems caused by the syntax-semanticspragmatics
continuism;
41 This discussion is part of the research program in Logic and Natural Language of the Graduate
Program in Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS. The text
presented here is a summarized version of a more detailed argumentation that is under construction.
Cristina Lopes Perna
163
(b) Raising the hypothesis of a Relevance Theory rebuilt as an interface theory
based on the Principle of Relevance – a principle capable of surviving at a
computational level without committing to a modular architecture.
Based on these inquiries, the aim is to provoke a discussion that surpasses
the level of the theories in themselves, towards a broader metatheoretical reflection.
The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability
of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
This essay based on a version of Frame Semantics, aims at: (a) establishing relations between the concepts of TERRORISM and VIOLENCE concerning theoretical and methodological discussions constitutive of the sub-project “Metaphor, empathy and the constant threat of urban violence in Brazil”, which is part of a larger research entitled “Living with Uncertainty: metaphor and the dynamics of empathy in discourse”; (b) justifying the incorporation of semantic-epistemic relations and semantic roles in the analysis of the corpus of the research project for the treatment of conceptualization processes in usage-based semantic models; and (c) justifying the incorporation of a metalanguage for the treatment of values or axiological systems associated to frames in the conceptualization of VIOLENCE.
semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum; (iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a computational level operationally and circumstantially; and
(v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some kind of compositionality; (vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositional-computational level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
set of questions:
(i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with
autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional
semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational
nature;
(ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates
cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i);
(iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of
Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms
of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic,
semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum;
(iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a
computational level operationally and circumstantially; and
(v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some
kind of compositionality;
(vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of
Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational
level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
tical reflection.
The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability
of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
set of questions: 41
(i) If Relevance Theory is founded on a modular mental architecture with
autonomous levels of logical-formal syntactic representations, a propositionalcompositional
semantics and a pragmatics of an inferential-computational
nature;
(ii) If the Principle of Relevance, as a property of cost-benefit economy, operates
cognitively and communicatively bound to a model according to (i);
(iii) If embodied Cognitive Linguistics, represented by the Neural Theory of
Language, operates in the sense of dealing with cognitive structures in terms
of a connectionist, parallel-distributed mind/brain architecture, with syntactic,
semantic-pragmatic categories in a continuum;
(iv) If Cognitive Linguistics, by means of the Neural Theory, still admits a
computational level operationally and circumstantially; and
(v) If Cognitive Linguistics, and Neural Theory in particular, operates with some
kind of compositionality;
(vi) Would it be possible to build an interface theory that, utilizing the Principle of
Relevance, could contribute to the implementation of a compositionalcomputational
level for inferences in a connectionist-based architecture?
The answer that is sought is directed towards:
(a) Finding in the (methodological) Partial Autonomy Hypothesis by Harder (1999)
elements for strengthening the descriptive adequacy of embodied Cognitive
Linguistics, avoiding certain problems caused by the syntax-semanticspragmatics
continuism;
41 This discussion is part of the research program in Logic and Natural Language of the Graduate
Program in Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS. The text
presented here is a summarized version of a more detailed argumentation that is under construction.
Cristina Lopes Perna
163
(b) Raising the hypothesis of a Relevance Theory rebuilt as an interface theory
based on the Principle of Relevance – a principle capable of surviving at a
computational level without committing to a modular architecture.
Based on these inquiries, the aim is to provoke a discussion that surpasses
the level of the theories in themselves, towards a broader metatheoretical reflection.
The set of problems regarding epistemological ruptures and the incommensurability
of the theories is found almost dramatically in this discussion.
This essay based on a version of Frame Semantics, aims at: (a) establishing relations between the concepts of TERRORISM and VIOLENCE concerning theoretical and methodological discussions constitutive of the sub-project “Metaphor, empathy and the constant threat of urban violence in Brazil”, which is part of a larger research entitled “Living with Uncertainty: metaphor and the dynamics of empathy in discourse”; (b) justifying the incorporation of semantic-epistemic relations and semantic roles in the analysis of the corpus of the research project for the treatment of conceptualization processes in usage-based semantic models; and (c) justifying the incorporation of a metalanguage for the treatment of values or axiological systems associated to frames in the conceptualization of VIOLENCE.