Cognitive linguistics is one of the fastest growing and influential perspectives on the nature
of language, the mind, and their relationship with sociophysical (embodied) experience. It is …

It is widely assumed that there is a natural, prelinguistic conceptual domain of time whose
linguistic organization is universally structured via metaphoric mapping from the lexicon and …

Semiotics, an emerging field dedicated to the “transdiciplinary study of meaning”, involving
above all researchers from semiotics, linguistics, developmental and comparative …

Cognitive semiotics is a new field dedicated to the transdisciplinary study of meaning,
involving above all researchers from semiotics, linguistics, developmental and comparative …

In the embodied, situated, enacted and distributed approaches to cognition, the coordinative
role of language comes to the fore. Language, with its symbolic properties, arises from a …

The goal of this article is to outline a general theory of meaning that I will refer to as The
Semiotic Hieranly. It distinguishes between four (macro) evolutionary levels in the …

This thesis concerns the nature of the gestures performed by five Swedish children. The
children are followed from 18 to 30 months of age: an age range which is characterized by a …

Niche construction theory is a relatively new approach in evolutionary biology that seeks to
integrate an ecological dimension into the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural …

It is shown that the definition of the subject area of Haugenian ecolinguistics is
methodologically inconsistent because of the implicit biomorphic metaphor, the language …

В книге ставится вопрос о необходимости переосмысления традиционных
познавательных установок и теоретических положений науки о языке. Такая …