How do we name things? Why is this question interesting? Let’s make an experiment. Look at the two images below: If you had to give a name to the animals in the red frames, which names would you choose? We have asked this question to many people, and found out that...
Meaning has always been the focus of Cognitive Linguistics since its early days in the 1970s. Foundational research in the then newly started field shed light on how meaning construction processes were key for understanding the mechanisms of language. The same...
