Charles J. Fillmore

Linguist (1929–2014) who coined the technical term "frame semantics" (1976, 1982) — the theory that a word's meaning can only be understood against the structured background of experience ("frame") it evokes. He earns a hub because he, not Lakoff & Johnson, is the true origin of the cognitive-linguistics "framing" tradition the vault repeatedly distinguishes from the psychology/decision-theory one; the recurring frame-semantics vs. framing-effect question turns on getting his authorship right. Lakoff describes his own political-framing work as an application of Fillmore's linguistics, and traces Fillmore's influences to European "semantic fields" research and to slot-and-filler representations he encountered at an AI lab.

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• claim-lakoff-traces-political-framing-to-fillmore-not-psychology
• observation-frame-semantics-and-framing-effect-are-independent-convergence
• claim-entman-1993-framing-synthesis-omits-lakoff-fillmore