Items for "construal operations"

Assessing the SSTH and GTVH: A view from cognitive linguistics

Despite its strong cognitive orientation in recent years, humor research still has paid relatively little attention to the paradigm of Cognitive linguistics (CL), which in light of its dynamic view on cognitive and semantic aspects of language in use, seems to provide an adequate framework for the analysis of humor...

Keywords: Cognitive linguistics, incongruity-resolution models, construal operations, logical mechanisms, prototype theory