creators_name: Schirra, Jörg R.J. editors_name: Sachs-Hombach, Klaus type: bookchapter datestamp: 2001-05-29 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:39 metadata_visibility: show title: Understanding Radio Broadcasts On Soccer: The Concept `Mental Image' and Its Use in Spatial Reasoning ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-lang subjects: ling-prag subjects: phil-lang full_text_status: public keywords: spatial reasoning, mental images, semantics of locative expressions abstract: 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. date: 1995 date_type: published publication: Bilder im Geiste: Zur kognitiven und erkenntnistheoretischen Funktion piktorialer Repräsentationen publisher: Rodopi, Amsterdam pagerange: 107-136 refereed: TRUE citation: Schirra, Jörg R.J. (1995) Understanding Radio Broadcasts On Soccer: The Concept `Mental Image' and Its Use in Spatial Reasoning. [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/1517/2/magde.ps