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Working Definition:
To locate an experience in a memory system.
Disciplinary Definitions:
"5.2. 2 . Structuring
Meaning is not objectively given, but constructed, even for expressions pertaining
to objective reality. We therefore cannot account for meaning by describing
objective reality, but only by describing the cognitive routines that constitute
a person's understanding of it. The subject matter of semantic analysis
is human conceptualization, and the structures of concern are those that
a person imposes on his mental experience through active cognitive processing.
Coherent mental experience is structured with reference to previous experience
(3.1). The activation of a previously established cognitive routine serves
as standard (S) for an act of comparison in which some facet of current experience
functions as target (T); to the extent that S>T approximates zero, the overall
event is one of recognition, and T is thereby interpreted as an instance of
S. A great deal of variability is inherent in the process, however. For example,
more than one established routine may be available to interpret T (or selected
aspects of T), and there is no way to predict in absolute terms which one might
be invoked on a given occasion. Recognition can operate at different levels
of tolerance (i.e. the vector V. need not be precisely zero) and can be made
sensitive to different parameters. Moreover, S is commonly schematic relative
to T, with scanning made to assess only their compatibility (thus all of the
specifications of S are recognized in T, even though T is more detailed); in
this case recognition amounts to categorization." (Langacker, Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, 2002, 194-195)
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