Across the millennia, and across a range of disciplines, there has been a widespread desire
to connect, or translate between, the senses in a manner that is meaningful, rather than …

Construction grammar is an approach to language that posits that units and structures in
language can be exhaustively described as pairings between form and meaning. These …

We demonstrate how two linguistic phenomena, figurative language (implicating cross-
modality) and derogatory language (implicating aggression), both demand a precise degree …

This paper proposes a Complexity Covariance Hypothesis, whereby linguistic complexity
covaries with cultural and socio-political complexity, and argues for an Evolutionary …

An extensive literature going back three quarters of a century holds that metaphorical
mappings between sensory domains conform to a hierarchy of the senses, such that …

Recently, there has been upsurge in the advertisement of various types of herbal
aphrodisiacs targeted at Nigerian men in the market environment in Calabar metropolis …

This theme issue builds on the surge of interest in the field of language evolution as part of
the broader field of human evolution, gathering some of the field's most prominent experts in …

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical
perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development …

Numerous scholars have demonstrated the existence of pervasive directionality in verbal
metaphors, for example when comparing the two terms 'conscience'and 'compass', the …

Sažetak One of most dominant conceptual metaphors used to talk about the COVID-19
across languages and cultures is the WAR metaphor, but many other metaphors have been …