The analysis of metaphors is a classical research theme in linguistics, but has received very little attention in psychological research so far. Metaphor analysis—as conceptualized in cognitive linguistics—is proposed here as a qualitative method for psychological research for several reasons. Metaphors are culturally and socially defined, yet they also represent a basic cognitive strategy of a...

In modern cognitive linguistics, the “concept”, which is increasingly used as a term by researchers dealing with problems of linguistic representation cognitions, becomes main ground. The processes related to knowledge and information are called cognitivism. From point view cognitivism, person studied an processing system, human behavior described explained in terms its internal states. These s...

conceptual metaphor is the most prominent achievements in cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics. based on this theory, most of the parts of our vision system and mindset is naturally metaphorical, which structures our way of thinking and understanding. therefore, our understanding has strong relationship in all aspects, and since the ethical implications are naturally abstract, metaphor...

This full-day workshop explores the Production of Referring Expressions (PRE) from different perspectives. It follows two earlier workshops on the same theme, which were associated with two earlier CogSci conferences. The first of these, PRE-CogSci 2009, focussed on the interplay between computational and empirical methods.1 The second, PRECogSci 2011, broadened this theme to include work on di...

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