Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The paper introduces the concept of affordance within frame semantics as a significant factor in the semantics/pragmatics boundary issue.Specifically, it is argued that expansions of literal meanings, which have been argued to be required for the complete interpretation of sentences, are constrained and guided by affordances, in contrast to the generally assumed complete freedom of the pragmatic mechanisms used to generate the expansions.A first hint at some general properties of affordances are presented, as well as some indications of the significance of affordances.
Author: Salvatore Attardo
Institution: Youngstown State University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2590112011