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 ...

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 ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

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, ...