In relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, memes and Internet jokes haveaspecial status. They work as stress-relievers, information vessels, or propa-ganda resistance. The effectiveness ameme relies on mingling verbal visualelements in such away that seemingly unrelated scenarios become relatable canbe interpreted agiven context. text aims at discussing cognitive mechanismsemployed ch...

8 This paper is a plea for sociolinguistics to integrate both theoretical and methodological developments from cognitive linguistics and, 9 even more importantly, psycholinguistics. More specifically, I argue that theoretical advances involving exemplar-based models and new 10 methodological tools from psycholinguistics (regressions, in particular mixed-effects models) and corpus linguistics (i...

The notion of a spatial information theory is often understood in the sense of a theory underlying the design and implementation of geographic information systems (GIS). This paper offers a different perspective on spatial information theories, taking the point of view of people trying to solve spatial problems by using a GIS. It discerns a need for user level theories about spatial information...