Barsalou’s elision of the personal and sub-personal levels tends to conceal the fact that he is, at best, providing the “specs” but not yet a model for his hypothesized perceptual symbols. John Maynard Keynes was once asked if he thought in words or pictures. “I think in thoughts,” the great man is reported to have replied. Fair enough, but now what? What kind of things are thoughts, and how do...

The aim of this paper is to apply tools cognitive poetics for exploring religious hymns in the mentality contemporary Polish, Ukrainian and English speakers. texts under study are from Triduum which a very special time within Roman Catholic Passiontide. Latin originals as well translations used show how conceptual imagery transforms perceptive process, located between ancient text today’s views...

In this paper we describe the usage of the syntactic parser synt (developed in the NLP Centre at Masaryk University) to gain information about syntactic structures (such as noun or verb phrases) of common sentences in Czech. These structures are from the analysis point of view usually identical to nonterminals in the grammar used by the parser to find possible valid derivations of the given sen...