Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

Cognitive Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that examines language as an integral facet of human cognition. It posits that our understanding and use of language emerges from bodily experiences ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content 'on the fly' -- even if it is ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

If you can't help but mentally correct every "your" that should be "you're," your brain might be revealing something ...

The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware is an interdisciplinary program that explores the intricate workings of the human mind and language. It offers ...

Cognitive linguistics focuses on the intersection of language and cognition. This field of study makes it possible to evaluate very disparate topics such as how joint attention is involved in reading ...