Semantics is studied for a number of different reasons but perhaps one of the main reasons could be: “If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication ...

Meaning has been given different definitions in the past. Is meaning simply the set of associations that a word evokes, is the meaning of a word defined by the images that its users connect to it? So ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...