title: Understanding Radio Broadcasts On Soccer: The Concept `Mental Image' and Its Use in Spatial Reasoning creator: Schirra, Jörg R.J. subject: Language subject: Pragmatics subject: Philosophy of Language description: Most cognitive theories agree that a listener of a sports broadcast on radio usually imagines the scene described; the concept `mental image' appears in a specific sort of explanations. In contrast to this conception, 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 `specification' and `implementation' 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 `mental 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. publisher: Rodopi, Amsterdam contributor: Sachs-Hombach, Klaus date: 1995 type: Book Chapter type: PeerReviewed format: application/postscript identifier: http://cogprints.org/1517/2/magde.ps identifier: Schirra, Jörg R.J. (1995) Understanding Radio Broadcasts On Soccer: The Concept `Mental Image' and Its Use in Spatial Reasoning. [Book Chapter] relation: http://cogprints.org/1517/