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The Cognitive Commitment and Situated Context
A key concept behind Cognitive Linguistics is that language reflects the mental processes and their functions. This concept enables the linguist to work on multiple problems simultaneously, studying...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #15
Ronald Langacker is considered one of the founding fathers of the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise, his seminal work in Cognitive Grammar has influenced pretty much everyone who does anything at all in...
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How Spiders Conceptualize Reality
I was working through a homework assignment about developing a language that captures the conceptualization patterns that a spider would have (given the boundaries of its embodied experience), this was...
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HEAD: Polysemous Network for an Open Class Lexical Item
Take a look at this diagram of a possible interpretation for the polysemous network of HEAD: [Hint: double click the image to enlarge...] The senses for head have both physical and metaphorical...
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MUST: Polysemous Network for a Closed Class Lexical Item
Here is another network diagram…double click to enlarge…the diagram is an interpretation of the sense variation for the semantics of the modal auxiliary “Must”. [NB: I included a few obsolete usages...
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To the woman on the RTA train, there are more than 3 meanings for “present”
As I was riding the train home today I overheard a conversation that made me realize again how people view as odd the things which the linguist views as normal. The woman behind me was commenting to...
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