We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

Students generate internal feedback by comparing their current knowledge against some
reference information. That information might be planned for by teachers–usually as …

War metaphors are ubiquitous in discussions of everything from political campaigns to
battles with cancer to wars against crime, drugs, poverty, and even salad. Why are warfare …

Abstract Knowledge is an abstract concept without any reference to the tangible world. It is a
very powerful concept, yet it has no clear definition so far. From the Greek philosophers up to …

We advance a theory of how business models can be innovated proactively in the absence
of exogenous changes, through processes of generative cognition. We contribute to the …

Praise for How Learning Works" How Learning Works is the perfect title for this excellent
book. Drawing upon new research in psychology, education, and cognitive science, the …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

The way we talk about complex and abstract ideas is suffused with metaphor. In five
experiments, we explore how these metaphors influence the way that we reason about …

This paper argues for the need to recognize a new order of syntactic phenomena, and for a
theory of syntax capable of addressing it. Dialogic syntax encompasses the linguistic …