Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of
figurative language that addresses the question," Why don't people just say what they …

A previous study by Chen demonstrates a correlation between languages that grammatically
mark future events and their speakers' propensity to save, even after controlling for …

After returning from a road trip down the California coast, a friend asks which part of the drive
was your favorite. You think about it for a moment and reply,“Santa Barbara.” In formulating …

Experimental semantics is an emerging area of scientific investigation in cognitive linguistics
whose aim is to investigate how people process meaning. In experimental semantics …

Dit proefschrift is geschreYen binnen het interdisciplinaire N: O-project 'Stilistiek Yan het
Nederlands'(projectnummer 360-70-260. Ik dank mijn promotoren 7on Yan Haaften,-aap de …

Recent evidence suggests that grammatical aspect can bias how individuals perceive
criminal intentionality during discourse comprehension. Given that criminal intentionality is a …

This article explores the metaphorical models English speakers employ in their
understanding of transgenderism. Transgender is the term ascribed to those who have …

Over the last two decades, accumulating work in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics
has provided evidence that language shapes thought. Conceptual metaphor theory …

In the linguistic domain, conceptual metaphors have been shown to structure grammar, the
lexicon, and abstract reasoning. Much recent research on conceptual metaphor comes from …

Readers actively construct representational models of meaning when reading text, and they
do so by drawing on a range of kinds of information, from the specific linguistic forms of the …