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Recursion, Björk, Mise en Abyme, Abstraction & the Ontological Metaphor...
Abstraction takes an instance of something and edits out the redundancy and unnecessary elements to leave the basic pattern in a less detailed, but more succinct manner. Abstraction in art seems to be...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #12
We face the future; the past is behind us. In English we talk about the future being ahead of us, forward in time, in front of us, what lies ahead, what is to come, what we are facing, what our week...
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Schematization of a research article on discourse metaphors
I am learning about various research methods and so I am reading articles to figure out their basic approach to research. Here is an article that I have recently read and that I feel embodies a good...
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How Spiders Conceptualize Reality
I was working through a homework assignment about developing a language that captures the conceptualization patterns that a spider would have (given the boundaries of its embodied experience), this was...
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Metaphoric Extension of Hunger and Thirst Adjectives
So, this morning as I was coming out of sleep and waking to face the day I remember trying to figure out why the stative adjective for not being satiated and having hunger was hungry and the stative...
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Grammaticalization via Metaphoric Extension in Tok Pisin
Grammaticalization is a process whereby items in a language change to move (usually) from an open class to a closed class. There are three main types of grammaticalization: 1) metaphorical extension,...
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A Cognitive Linguist’s Version of The BBC’s 100 Book List
I felt like a loser when the BBC 100 book list (even though it wasn’t actually from the Beeb) was going around because I had only read 5 of the books, so, in response: Here is my list of 100 Cognitive...
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CONTAINER Is an Ontological Metaphor
Ontological Metaphors are metaphors that give shape to abstract concepts and even contribute to the structure of Primary Metaphors. CONTAINER is one of those metaphors. The SIL Glossary of Linguistic...
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Truffle to Truffle: Metaphors of Dirty Decadence
I can’t tell if I like truffles the mushroom better than I like truffles the chocolate, but one thing is for sure, truffles of any kind offer a guilty pleasure. From a cognitive science perspective...
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Real Life Applications of Cognitive Linguistics
I have said it before and I will say it again: ANYTHING that requires thought benefits from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We use language to help in making sense of the world, this goes for broad...
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