Re: Frame-based vs ontology-based vocabulary
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 21:32 |
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On 2/20/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/20/2007 12:26:56 PM Central Standard Time,
> jimhenry1973@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> > Etc.
> > This is probably surmountable, but I don't know
> > how I would go about trying to count the number
> > of frames "in English" .... more likely one would
> > count the number of distinct frames in general
> > American culture, leaving out (or saving for later)
> > frames that are peculiar to a given subculture.
> >
>
> A lot of this sounds like memes, especially as described in Dawkins's "The
> God delusion".
The original piece on memes was a chapter in Dawkins'
_The Selfish Gene_ (1976); apparently more worth
reading than his more recent books, from what I've
heard.
But I don't think that the concept "frame" has much to do
with "memes" as Dawkins described them, except that
frames are a kind of meme -- but then, so is just about
every other kind of concept or idea. The "meme" idea
probably doesn't explain anything about frames qua frames.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry