Digital Humanities

A frame in semantic studies is a conceptual structure that organizes experience, predicts linguistic arguments, and is grounded in bodily, social, and cultural contexts, aiding in understanding lexical meanings and their applications in various fields such as cognitive science and financial analysis.

Let us study several definitions:

1) Semantic frames in semantic studies refer to how lexical fields are conceptually and pragmatically framed by or grounded in our bodily, social, and cultural experiences and practices.

Nerlich, B., & Clarke, D. (2000). Semantic fields and frames: Historical explorations of the interface between language, action, and cognition. Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 125-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00042-9.

2) Frames in semantic studies are embedded in wider narratives and react in systematic ways to the discursive environment, with a differentiated center-periphery structure.

Baden, C. (2010). Contextualizing frames in political discourse: using semantic network analysis to investigate political parties' framing strategies in the Dutch EU referendum campaign. Circulation Research.

3) A system of frames helps explain why seemingly unrelated expressions in different languages find a common denominator in higher-order frames, thus becoming semantic-pragmatic equivalents.

Pluwak, A. (2021). The frame system as an interlingual representation for parallel texts. Intercultural Pragmatics, 18, 657 - 685. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2021-5004.

4) A frame in semantic studies is a system of concepts related in such a way that understanding one concept requires understanding the entire system.

Petruck, M. (1996). FRAME SEMANTICS. https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.2.fra1.