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, ...

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 ...

The Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University offers a Master of Arts in Cognitive Linguistics. Read on to learn more about our program. Prospective students often wonder how ...

Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 2, Special Issue: Silver Anniversary Issue (summer-fall 2017), pp. 367-386 (20 pages) We outline some recent highlights in the application of cognitive ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

This study presents data analysis concerning verbs of motion ir "go" and vir "come," in Portuguese and English with emphasis on Portuguese. The data form a lexical network with internal structure by ...

An introduction to the scientific analysis of the structure and uses of language. Core areas covered include phonetics and phonology, morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with ...

Bilingual education in schools has long been a political hot potato -- it was banned in California by a 1998 ballot measure, which the state Senate is now asking voters to repeal. But politics aside, ...