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Working Definition:
"The relation between linguistic units and usage events" (Langacker. Fourndations of Cogntive Grammar 487).
Disciplinary Definitions:
See Langacker. Fourndations of Cogntive Grammar, 2.1 "Units" and 2.1.4 "Convention and Usage" (57-76)
Comments:
The concept of "coding" seems to have replaced the "encoding-code-decoding" triad from early information theory in more recent Cognitive Science. I use coding synomymously with encoding and re-coding to refer to the process of interpreting a discourse or text that another person or persona has coded.
In Concept, Image, and Symbol, Langacker distinguishes between "semantic structure" and "conceptual structure." Conceptual structure refers to coding as it occurs cognitively and semantic structure refers to the linguistic conventions that establish conceptual structures ("the form which thoughts must assume for purposes of ready linguistic symbolization.") "Semantic structure is conventionalized conceptual structure." He notes that different languages often "code the same conceptual structure by menas of substantially differnt images. . . The conventional expressions for a given conceptual scene may structure this scene in alternate ways--taking different perspectives on it, highlighting or omitting different facets" (108-109).
This suggests that conceptual structuring (coding)
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