Vantage theory meets cognitive psychology: A synthesis with frame theory

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 639-665

  Johnson, Marnie L ^a  

^a SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignable difference; Cognitive flexibility; Concept representation; Frame theory; Similarity comparison; Vantage theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944459159     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00008-0     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Aoyagi, M.H., 1995. Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction. In: Taylor, J., MacLaury, R. (Eds.), Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, pp. 331-363.
2. Armstrong, S.L., Gleitman, L., Gleitman, H., 1983. What some concepts might not be. Cognition 13, 263-308.
3. Barr, R.A., Caplan, L.J., 1987. Category representations and their implications for category structure. Memory & Cognition 15 (5), 397-418.
4. Barsalou, L.W., 1992. Frames, concepts, and conceptual fields. In: Lehrer, A., Kittay, E. (Eds.), Frames, Fields, and Contrasts: New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organization. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale NJ, pp. 21-74.
5. Barsalou, L.W., 1999. Perceptual symbol systems. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 22 (4), 577-660.
6. Barsalou, L.W., Billman, D., 1989. Systematicity and semantic ambiguity. In: Gorfein, D.S. (Ed.), Resolving Semantic Ambiguity. Springer, New York, pp. 146-203.
7. Berlin, B., Kay, P., 1969. Basic-color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles.
8. Collins, A.M., Quillian, M.R., 1969. Retrieval time from semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 8, 240-247.
9. Cowan, N., 1988. Evolving conceptions of memory storage, selective attention, and their mutual constraints within the human information-processing system. Psychological Bulletin 104 (2), 163-191.
10. Gentner, D., 1983. Structure mapping: a theoretical framework for analogy. Cognitive Science 7, 155-170.
11. Gentner, D., Markman, A.B., 1994. Structural alignment in comparison: no difference without similarity. Psychological Science 5 (3), 152-158.
12. Goldstone, R.L., Medin, D.L., Gentner, D., 1991. Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments. Cognitive Psychology 23, 222-262.
13. Gruenenfelder, T.M., 1986. Relational similarity and context effects in category verification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 12 (4), 587-599.
14. Hampton, J.A., 1984. The verification of category and property statements. Memory & Cognition 12 (4), 345-354.
15. Hill, J.H., MacLaury, R.E., 1995. The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of 'person'. In: Taylor, J.R., MacLaury, R.E. (Eds.), Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, pp. 277-329.
16. Howard, R.W., 1980. Category use in abstract mental comparisons. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 32, 625-633.
17. Johnson, M.L., 1998. The Attribute-Value Distinction: How Commonalities can be Positively and Negatively Related to Alignable Differences. PhD dissertation, The George Washington University.
18. Johnson, M.L., Caplan, L.J., 1997. Within-category similarity: The inverse relation between commonalities and alignable differences. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, No. 328.
19. Jolicoeur, P., Gluck, M.A., Kosslyn, S.M., 1984. Pictures and names: making the connection. Cognitive Psychology 16, 243-275.
20. MacLaury, R.E., 1986. Color in Mesoamerica Vol. I: A Theory of Composite Categorization. PhD dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.
21. MacLaury, R.E., 1987a. Color-category evolution and Shuswap yellow-with-green. American Anthropologist 89, 107-124.
22. MacLaury, R.E., 1987b. Coextensive semantic ranges: different names for distinct vantages of one category. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, General Session, pp. 268-282.
23. MacLaury, R.E., 1992. From brightness to hue: an explanatory model of color-category evolution. Current Anthropology 33, 137-186.
24. MacLaury, R.E., 1995. Vantage theory. In: Taylor, J.R., MacLaury, R.E. (Eds.), Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World. Mouton de Gruyter, New York, pp. 231-276.
25. MacLaury, R.E., 1997a. Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages. University of Texas Press, Austin.
26. MacLaury, R.E., 1997b. Vantage theory in cognitive science: an anthropological account of categorization and similarity judgment. Categorization and Similarity Workshop 1, University of Edinburgh. Available: maclaury@sas.upenn.edu.
27. MacLaury, R.E., 1997c. Skewing and darkening: dynamics of the cool category. In: Hardin, C.L., Maffi, L. (Eds.), Color in Thought and Language. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 261-282.
28. MacLaury, R.E., 1999. Basic color terms: twenty-five years after. In: Borg, A. (Ed.), The Language of Colour in the Mediterranean, pp. 1-37. Almquist & Wiksell International, Stockholm.
29. MacLaury, R.E., 2000. Linguistic relativity and the plasticity of categorization. In: Putz, M., Verspoor, M. (Eds.), Explorations in Linguistic Relativity. Benjamins, Philadelphia, pp. 249-294.
30. MacLaury, R.E., 2001. Color terms. In: Haspelmath, M. et al. (Eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook (Vol. II). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York.
31. MacLaury, R.E., Almási, J., Kövecses, Z., 1997. Hungarian Piros and Voros: color from points of view. Semiotica 114 (1/2), 67-82.
32. Markman, A.B., Gentner, D., 1993a. Splitting the differences: a structural alignment view of similarity. Journal of Memory and Language 32, 517-535.
33. Markman, A.B., Gentner, D., 1993b. Structural alignment during similarity comparisons. Cognitive Psychology 25, 431-467.
34. Markman, A.B., Wisniewski, E.J., 1997. Similar and different: the differentiation of basic level categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 23 (1), 54-70.
35. McCloskey, M., Glucksberg, S., 1979. Decision processes in verifying category membership statements: implications for models of semantic memory. Cognitive Psychology 11, 1-37.
36. Mcdin, D.L., Goldstone, R.L., Gentner, D., 1993. Respects for similarity. Psychological Review 100 (2), 254-278.
37. Rips, L.J., Collins, A., 1993. Categories and resemblance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 122, 468-486.
38. Rumclhart, D.E., Ortony, A., 1977. The representation of knowledge in memory. In: Anderson, R.C., Spiro, R.J., Montague, W.E. (Eds.), Schooling and the Acquisition of Knowledge. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp. 99-136.
39. Sailor, K.M., Shoben, E.J., 1993. Effects of category membership on comparative judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 19 (6), 1321-1327.
40. Smith, E.E., Shoben, E.J., Rips, L.J., 1974. Structure and process in semantic decisions. Psychological Review 81, 214-241.
41. Tversky, A., 1977. Features of similarity. Psychological Review 84, 327-352.