One of the three parameters of focal adjustment.

Selection determines which aspects of a scene are attended to and relates to the notion of a conceptual domain (1). For instance, in the following examples the lexical item close selects for distinct conceptual domains:

1. Max's school is quite close to the (space) Lido
2. It's close to Isabella's birthday (time)
3. That blue is close to the blue of (color) my dining room carpet
4. Max and Isabella are very close (emotion)