| This page is part of the ongoing |
| Encyclopaedic Meaning project |
| Ideas from cognitive grammar |
| Base |
| Domain |
| Immediate scope |
| Profile |
| Scope of predication |
| Connotation |
| Denotation |
| Dictionary meaning |
| Encyclopaedic meaning |
| Frame semantics |
| Frame evocation |
| Framing |
| Highlighting |
| Semantic frame |
| Mental space theory |
| Structural semantics |
| Windowing of attention |
In frame semantics, highlighting is the relationship between a sign and its denotative content. That is the sign evokes a semantic frame of encyclopaedic meaning and highlights the denotative concept against that frame.
Bibliography[]
- Fillmore, Charles J. (1982). "Frame semantics". In The Linguistic Society of Korea, eds. Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Seoul: Hanshin. 111-37.