In his commentary, David Galin raises several important issues that deserve to be addressed. In this response, I do three things. First, I briefly discuss the relation between the present work and the metaphoric theories of thought developed by cognitive lin- guists such as Lakoff and Johnson (1998). Second, I address some of the confusions that seem to have arisen about my use of the terms "su...

Lakoff (1974) argues that affective demonstratives in English are markers of solidarity, with exclamative overtones deriving from their close association with evaluative predication. Focusing on this, we seek to inform these claims using quantitative corpus evidence. Our experiments suggest that affectivity is not limited to specific uses of this, but rather that it arises in a wide range of li...

There are two orders of facts about polysemy: a satisfactory theory must account in a natural way for both. The first concerns differences in the semantic content of the interpretations of a word in different contexts. It is this aspect of polysemy which has been the most actively researched, with the aim of discovering regularity and predictability. Noteworthy recent proposals concerning polys...

Esta pesquisa procura investigar o conceito de metáfora raiz na concepção Stephen C. Pepper a partir sua obra World Hypotheses (1942) e artigos relacionados. Além disso, extrapolar uma possível interlocução com trabalho filosófico do conhecimento científico George Lakoff Mark Johnson, particularmente em Metaphors we live by (1980) Considerando estes objetivos, foi abordado sobre Johson procuran...