?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Understanding+Radio+Broadcasts+On+Soccer%3A+The+Concept+%60Mental+Image'+and+Its+Use+in+Spatial+Reasoning&rft.creator=Schirra%2C+J%C3%B6rg+R.J.&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.description=Most+cognitive+theories+agree+that+a+listener+of+a+sports+broadcast+on+radio+usually+imagines+the+scene+described%3B+the+concept+%60mental+image'+appears+in+a+specific+sort+of+explanations.+In+contrast+to+this+conception%2C+it+is+argued+that+this+concept+should+rather+be+understood+as+part+of+a+certain+kind+of+grounding+explanations+of+the+radio+listener's+understanding.+This+particular+conception+is+based+on+the+distinction+between+%60specification'+and+%60implementation'+as+found+in+the+theory+of+abstract+data+types.+Its+application+to+the+field+of+spatial+concepts+leads+to+a+computational+system+(ANTLIMA)+which+exemplifies+how+the+expression+%60mental+image'+could+be+used+while+explaining+a+speaker's+ability+to+control+the+resolvability+of+ambiguities+in+an+objective+report+of+what+the+speaker+sees.+&rft.publisher=Rodopi%2C+Amsterdam&rft.contributor=Sachs-Hombach%2C+Klaus&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1517%2F2%2Fmagde.ps&rft.identifier=++Schirra%2C+J%C3%B6rg+R.J.++(1995)+Understanding+Radio+Broadcasts+On+Soccer%3A+The+Concept+%60Mental+Image'+and+Its+Use+in+Spatial+Reasoning.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1517%2F