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Veale, Tony, O'Donoghue, Diarmuid and Keane, Mark (1999) Computability as a Limiting Cognitive Constraint: Complexity Concerns in Metaphor Comprehension about which Cognitive Linguists should be Aware. In: Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (152). John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 129-155. ISBN 9789027236562
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Abstract
If metaphor is to be viewed as a fundamental cognitive agency, as recent work
suggests, what ramifications does this view have for a model of semantic memory?
This paper presents a computational treatment of metaphor comprehension, named
Sapper (see Veale & Keane. 1993, 1994; Veale et al. 1995, 1996), which is built upon
a parallel, adaptive, and learning network model of semantic memory. Sapper is a
hybrid symbolic connectionist model which views the interpretation of novel
metaphors as a process of connectionist bridge-building, a process which
subsequently alters the activation dynamics between different conceptual schemata in
semantic memory, thereby causing these schemata to interact (following Black, 1962)
in a representationally dynamic fashion.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Computability; Complexity; Metaphor Comprehension; Cognitive Linguistics; Sapper; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: | 8178 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1075/cilt.152.11vea |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Diarmuid O'Donoghue |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2017 13:55 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/8178 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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