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The framework sometimes referred to as 'conceptual metaphor theory', with its origins in Lakoff & Johnson (1980), is one of the central areas of research in the more general field of cognitive linguistics. Within this field, the notions of 'source domains' and 'target domains', 'invariance', 'mappings', and so forth have become a common, though not universal, vocabulary for discussing the lingu...

'Once upon a time there was a congress...'

Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Via Olgettina 48 20132 Milano, Italy e.mail: [email protected] conclude immediately‘, spoken by the irritated moderator. Of course, he could have rehearsed the presentation beforehand to get his timing right. He hadn’t thought of that. He could also have numbered his slides in order to know where he was in the presen...

Once upon a time there was complex numerical estimation

During the last decade, evidence collected in cognitive, developmental, and comparative research showed that adults prevented from verbal counting, along with infants and non-human animals possess numerical systems that are independent of language (the so-called “non-verbal numerical abilities”). Interestingly very similar results were reported among mammals, birds, and fish, leading some autho...

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Telling stories to help relieve a woman in labor may be soothing, but one must be sure to choose the right tale.