The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing
belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support …

The findings of cognitive linguistics demonstrate the thoroughly embodied grounding of
linguistic constructions and linguistic meaning ranging from abstract thought to interactive …

The paper outlines the basics of data collection, analysis and visualization under the frame-
based approach to lexical typology and illustrates its methodology using the data of cross …

Our understanding of touch as a basic and complex sense is informed by phenomenological
perspectives on our corporeal “being-in-the-world” and the notion of intercorporeality as well …

Spatial metaphors of affect display remarkable consistencies across languages in mapping
sensorimotor experiences onto emotional states, reflecting a great degree of similarity in …

The focus of much sensory language research has been on vocabulary and codability, not
how language is used in communication of sensory perceptions. We make a case for …

Creative metaphor has been of central interest to the cognitive linguistic research community
in recent years. However, little is known about what propels people to use metaphor in a …

В статье представлены результаты типологического анализа глаголов падения,
выполненного на материале 42 языков. Под падением здесь понимается …

This chapter examines how emotional states and personal characteristics are described in
terms of sensory experience in ancient Egyptian texts. Specifically, the authors observe how …

В статье обсуждаются метафорические употребления глаголов падения, выявленные
на материале 20 языков. Для изучаемых лексем характерен широкий спектр …