Metaphor has been studied for centuries, but traditionally it confined to the field of rhetoric, and seen as a rhetorical method. However, with development modern society advancement cognitive linguistics, some linguistics researchers believe that metaphor is no longer just linguistic phenomenon, also mode thinking. The conceptual system contains rich sufficient cultural information, which make...

Anthropology was a founding member of cognitive science (Bender et al., 2010; Gardner, 1985), sharing with other cognitive disciplines a deep interest in thinking and behavior. With its unique expertise in the cultural content, context, and constitution of cognition, it would still be essential to any comprehensive endeavor to explore the human mind (Bloch, 2012), but rather has turned into cog...

This paper contains a description of two experiments that have been done to test self organisation and cultural evolution as possible mechanisms for explaining the origins of language in general and the origins of phonological systems in particular. Using computer simulations of agents that try to communicate using speech sounds, together with a selectionist algorithm where successful phonemes ...

This volume appears as the next installment in the CSLI series of edited volumes on cognitive and functional linguistics, Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL). The name of the series reflects the theme of the first conference, held in 1994 at the University of California, San Diego, and the title of the first volume, edited by Adele Goldberg (1996). It is now also the name of the...

Evolutionary linguistics is going to clarify the evolutionary process of language and evolutionary economics is clarifying the dynamics of economic phenomena. In this paper, we consider the relevance between these two fields. In evolutionary linguistics, the origin of language is thought of as the biological evolutionary process of language capacity of humans and the evolution of language the p...

Since 1994, the University of Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center proposed an instrument to measure neuropathies not yet adapted to use in Brazil. Then, this study aimed to adapt cross-culturally the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) into Brazilian Portuguese, verifying its reliability. Thirty diabetic patients were initially evaluated with the adapted version after com...

The article briefly reviews bilingual Slovak-Bulgarian/BulgarianSlovak parallel and aligned corpus. The corpus is collected and developed as results of the collaboration in the frameworks of the joint research project between Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The multilingual corpora are lar...

This position paper presents an approach to computational narrative based in cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics accounts of conceptual blending, metaphor, and narrative, multimedia semantics, human-centered interface design, and digital media art practice. In particular, as a case study, we describe the Living Liberia Fabric, an AI-based interactive narrative system developed in affilia...