... depicted in figure 17 .1, where the profile is the ‘‘onstage’’ focus of attention, which the speaker and hearerview from their offstage vantage point, the ground. Of course, the viewing framecan ... dichotomy (Langacker 19 87a: 15 4), pertains to the arbitrariness of any spe-cific line of demarcation. It does not deny either the existence of pragmatics or the possibility of distinguishing it ... mysterious, and their investigation unscientific. 12 On the contrary, cognitive semantic research (e.g., Fauconnier 19 85, 19 97; Lakoff andJohnson 19 80, 19 99; Fauconnier and Turner 19 98, 2002; Talmy...