What’s in a frame? The semantics of multimodal objects

Abstract

The term frame is a polysemous one since its debut in Linguistics. Frames have been associated to case structures (Fillmore, 1968) situational grounding (Goffman, 1974) and scenes against which lexical meaning can be defined (Fillmore, 1977). Such a network of related meanings for the word frame has been recently increased by the multimodal turn in language studies. The word frame may also refer to each static image making up a video sequence. In this talk, I explore the connections between the several senses associated to the word frame. From the point of view of Frame Semantics and FrameNet, I will discuss the implications of, first, adopting such a perspective for analyzing multimodal objects—that is, text where communicative modes other than verbal language play a key role—and, second, of embracing multimodality in FrameNet analysis.

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