Marcella Bertuccelli Papi It is widely acknowledged that the pragmatic field of research is not
homogeneous. In its broad sense, it covers a range of loosely related research programmes …

Research on language cognition relies on knowledge and expertise from across a broad
range of academic and medical disciplines. Studies should therefore be resolutely …

One of the most interesting aspects of human communication is that people do not always
mean what they say. Indeed, a big part of a listener's job is to understand an utterance even …

“I don't know what you are talking about” is a common lament from the uncomprehending. It
points to a fact about language that has rarely been at the forefront of psychological …

Originally published in 1980, this is a book about the psychology of figurative language. It is
however, eclectic and therefore should be of interest to professionals and students in …

The interest in how the brain processes METAPHORS traces its origins back to a tradition
which regarded figurative language as POETIC and hence the opposite of literal language …

The purpose of this book is to explore the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists
and cognitive linguists are interested in. In doing so, the volume contributes to bridging the …

We live in a world where words have taken over from physical or nonverbal forms of
communication. With words, information about human interaction and other events is …

Cognitive Linguistics was founded in part on the cognitive commitment—the promise that
linguistic models, explanations, theories, accounts, etc., of language functioning in people …

When you hear somebody speak, or read a bit of text, you are somehow assigning meaning
to an unfolding sequence of signs. Because of the representational and computational …