This paper explores “Anglocentrism” as a bias in contemporary linguistics and cognitive
sciences. Anglo concepts dominate international discourse on language and cognition, but …

The paper offers some reflections on the notion of theory in relation to lexicography. The
immediate impetus for it has come from Tarp (2008) and the reactions which that book …

The present paper takes a supportive stance towards humanism, anthropocentrism and
universalism. It does so through the lens of a theoretical approach known as integrationism …

The purpose of this paper is threefold. Firstly, it seeks to fill a gap in the literature on
interjections by suggesting that 'laughter interjections'(words such English haha or hehe) …

This paper explores sort humor 'black humor', a key concept in Danish conversational
humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes …

The Danish word lige [ˈliːə] is a highly culture-specific discourse particle. English
translations sometimes render it as “please,” but this kind of functional translation is …

In this paper, we study the cultural semantics of the personhood construct mind in
Trinidadian creole. We analyze the lexical semantics of the word and explore the wider …

The Longgu people (Solomon Islands) conceptualize the human person as consisting of two
parts, suli ('body') and anoa (roughly,'spirit'). Understanding the concept of anoa requires an …

There are footprints of pigs all over the Danish language. Pig-based verbs, nouns and
adjectives abound, and the pragmatics of Danish, including its repertoire of abusives, is …

All languages and cultures appear to have one or more" mind-like" constructs that
supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for …