Idealized cognitive model

In cognitive linguistics, an idealized cognitive model (ICM) is the phenomenon in which knowledge represented in a semantic frame is often a conceptualization of experience that is not congruent with reality. It has been proposed by scholars such as George Lakoff and Gilles Fauconnier.

Bibliography

* George Lakoff (1987) ''Cognitive models and prototype theory'', published at pp. 63–100 in Ulric Neisser (Ed.) ''Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization'' New York, Cambridge University Press.
* Croft, William and Cruse, D. Alan (2004) ''Cognitive Linguistics'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 28– 32

References

Cognitive linguistics

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