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SUMMARY:Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in 
 Perceptual Semantics - Tony Veale\, University College Dublin
DTSTART:20151008T120000Z
DTEND:20151008T130000Z
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CONTACT:Tamara Polajnar
DESCRIPTION:The challenge of linguistic creativity is to use words in a wa
 y that is novel and striking and even whimsical\, to convey meanings that 
 remain stubbornly grounded in the very same world of familiar experiences 
 as serves to anchor the most literal and unimaginative language. The chall
 enge remains unmet by systems that merely shuttle or arrange words to achi
 eve novel arrangements without concern as to how those arrangements are to
  spur the processes of meaning construction in a reader. In this talk I sh
 all explore a problem of lexical invention that cannot be solved without a
 n explicit model of the perceptual grounding of language: the invention of
  apt new names for colours. To solve this problem I shall call upon the no
 tion of a linguistic readymade\, a phrase that is wrenched from its origin
 al context of use to be given new meaning and new resonance in new setting
 s. To ensure that our linguistic readymades\, which owe a great deal to Ma
 rcel Duchamp’s notion of found art\, are anchored in a consensus model o
 f perception\, I introduce the notion of a lexicalized colour stereotype. 
  Along the way\, I use the problem of grounded lexical invention to explor
 e the problem of symbol-grounding more generally\, and consider what it mi
 ght tell us about the infamous Chinese Room problem posed by philosopher J
 ohn Searle.
LOCATION:LT2\, Computer Laboratory
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