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Scanning

A notion developed in cognitive grammar.

Relates to how the aspects of a scene are perceived, visually or otherwise, and give rise to a conceptual representation.

Two types of scanning are distinguished: sequential scanning and summary scanning which serve to distinguish between temporal relations and atemporal relations respectively.

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