Language helps people communicate and think. Precise and accurate language would
seem best suited to achieve these goals. But a close look at the way people actually talk …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

The present paper goes beyond previous treatments of cognitive models, especially
conceptual metaphor and metonymy, by drawing on linguistic evidence. It introduces …

Enactivist accounts of language use generally treat concrete words in terms of motor
intentionality systems and affordances for action. There is less consensus, though, regarding …

Dynamic descriptions of static situations, eg The road goes through the forest, have attracted
a lot of attention in semantics. In cognitive linguistics, terms such as “fictive motion” and …

" Consider a case in which you are moving along a linear path toward a destination, and at
time T1 you are halfway to the destination. If you then travel farther along the path and reach …

Have you ever heard of false friends in the language classroom? Some examples such as
library and librería (Spanish for bookshop) may come to your mind. False friends are an …

Fictive motion is a fascinating mechanism in language through which a static scene is
expressed in terms of motion. Persian is one of the languages in which fictive motion is …

Metaphor in Moral Imagination: Enacting Possible Ways of Moral Action through Embodied
Simulation Page 1 METAPHOR IN MORAL IMAGINATION Enacting possible ways of moral …