In the introductory chapter to their excellent corpus linguistics textbook, "The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics," Anne O'Keeffe and Michael McCarthy give a brief account of Cardinal Hugo of ...

We are grateful to Eugene Volokh for the invitation to discuss corpus linguistics generally and our forthcoming article, "Judging Ordinary Meaning," in particular. Corpus linguistics is an empirical ...

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 ...

The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...

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, ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious ...

“Stop gaslighting me,” I joked to my brother. He rolled his eyes, “That’s not what the word ‘gaslighting’ means.” “Stop gaslighting me about gaslighting!” I yelled back. Merriam-Webster has just ...