idealized cognitive model
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In cognitive linguistics, an idealized cognitive model (ICM) is the phenomenon in which knowledge represented in a semantic frame is often a conceptualization of experience that is not congruent with reality.{{Cite book|title=Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things|url=https://archive.org/details/womenfiredangero00lako|url-access=registration|last=Lakoff|first=George|publisher=University of Chicago|year=1987|location=Chicago}} 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.
- Croft, William and Cruse, D. Alan (2004) Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 28– 32