Sémantique cognitive de l'action : 1. contexte théorique

This paper presents the results of a study associating linguists and psychologists interested in the representation of the meaning of lexical items. The different theories proposed in the literature are discussed : semantic primitives, componential analysis, schemas... A general conception of a cognitive analysis of meaning is proposed : The Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. In this theory different levels of representation are defined : primitives which are the basic components of the description of meaning, semantico-cognitive schemes which are organizations of semantic primitives and which represent a given acceptation of a lexical item in a given context, cognitive archetypes which represent the structure of the different acceptations of a lexical item, and semantico-cognitive fields which represent the similarities of meaning of groups of lexical items .Descles Jean-Pierre, Flageul V., Kekenbosch Christiane, Meunier J.M., Richard Jean-François. Sémantique cognitive de l'action : 1. contexte théorique. In: Langages, 32ᵉ année, n°132, 1998. Cognition, catégorisation, langage, sous la direction de Rodolphe Ghiglione, Jean-Pierre Desclés et Jean-François Richard. pp. 28-47