Attention and Meaning. The Attentional Basis of Meaning
Attention and Meaning. The Attentional Basis of Meaning
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注意和意义。
DOI:
10.1163/23526416-00301005
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
24.8
通讯作者:
A. AlHarbi
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作者:
Giorgio Marchetti;G. Benedetti;A. AlHarbi
Among the cognitive processes involved in the construction of any kind of meaning, attention is fundamental in determining what, how and why we mean. Attention plays a primary role in: the process of learning the meanings of words and, more generally, of acquiring knowledge, signification, discourse and persuasion, perceiving, representing and (re) framing reality; shaping the attitudes of the audience; conveying values and ideologies. Conversely, the meanings of words and, more generally, of signs convey condensed instructions for the attentional operations one has to perform in order to consciously experience what is expressed through and by them. Language, by addressing and guiding attention in specific ways, helps to select, amplify and support certain semantic components and concepts, and construct and communicate knowledge, as both psychological and linguistic studies have variously documented. Since the second half of the last century, scholars from different backgrounds and different research traditions, have been undertaking, independently of each other, various research programs aimed at systematically and comprehensively analyzing meaning construction in attentional terms. These are the main research programs that can be identified thus far; detailed references to all the studies can be found in the book:(i) Operational methodology by Silvio Ceccato (Ceccato 1969; Ceccato & Zonta 1980; Ceccato & Oliva 1988), taken up by Italian scholars, prominently among them Giulio Benedetti (2006, 2011) and Giorgio Marchetti (1993, 2006, 2010);(ii) Kai-Uwe Carstensen’s (2001, 2007, 2011) Cognitivist Attentional Semantics;(iii) Simon Scheider’s (Scheider & Kuhn 2011) formalized system;