Idealized cognitive model

An Idealized Cognitive Model, ICM or Frame is the name given in cognitive linguistics to the mental representation known as "meaning". It is a mental construct which is recruited in a Mental Space as we think and speak. It has been proposed by scholars such as George Lakoff and Gilles Fauconnier.

Bibliography

• George Lakoff (1987) Cognitive models and prototype theory, published at pp.63-100 in Ulric Neisser (Ed.) Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization New York, Cambridge University Press.