Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Most accounts of the evolution of language assume that language and greater intelligence are beneficial adaptations, leading to increases in survival fitness. These accounts emphasise natural selection, with language as an adaptation to the habitat, placing less emphasis on sexual selection and reproductive fitness. An account of language evolution...
Pričujoče magistrsko delo združuje filozofsko in jezikoslovno analizo pojma jezika z namenom primerjave idej poznega obdobja Ludwiga Wittgensteina ter temeljnih idej kognitivnega jezikoslovja. Koncept družinskih podobnosti je vzet kot začetna točka primerjave, saj ga je sprva uvedel Wittgenstein, kasneje pa ga je uporabila Eleanor Rosch v začetnih ...
Published in Journal of World Languages
Ecosystems around the world are becoming engulfed in single-use plastics, the majority of which come from plastic packaging. Reusable plastic packaging systems have been proposed in response to this plastic waste crisis, but uptake of such systems in the UK is still very low. This article draws on a thematic corpus of 5.6 million words of UK Englis...
Published in Open Linguistics
Machine translation (MT) has made significant strides and has reached accuracy levels that often make the post-editing (PE) of MT output a viable alternative to manual translation. However, despite professional translators increasingly considering PE as a valid stage in their translation workflow, little has been done to investigate MT output for t...
Cette étude tente d’apporter des preuves empiriques d’une corrélation phonosémantique dans certains types de noms propres en mandarin. Le cadre dans lequel elle est menée est celui de la linguistique analogique, où l’analogie est considérée comme étant un processus cognitif qui repose sur une relation de similarité (binaire ou proportionnelle) entr...
Published in Chinese Semiotic Studies
Looking beyond the internalism–externalism debate, we offer a distributed view of how experience can garner linguistic and mental content. To make the case, first, we challenge the idea that cognition is organism-centered and synchronistic. Instead, we use Berthoz’s principle of “simplexity” to open up the multiscalarity of cognitive ecosystems. In...
In the last years, the political communication has undergone some changes not only in Spain but also in the rest of the world. These changes have to do with the simplification of messages and the frequent use of emotional elements within political speeches. In this article the details of those changes are explored, and we wonder if they are part of...
This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. The thesis builds on previous research by Winter (2019a) and argues that the multimodal nature of perce...
The present study investigates the word formation process of lexical blending in the context of written US web news between January 2010–March 2018. The study has two interrelated aims. First, it aims to develop a transparent, rigid, and replicable method of data collection. This is motivated by a lack of systematicity of data collection procedures...
From David Cameron, through Theresa May, to Boris Johnson, what Brexit means has evolved, linguistically speaking, but also conceptually speaking. It is mostly through discourse that this quite unfathomable concept came into being and slowly became a more stable notion in the British and European contexts. Thanks to corpus linguistics software tool...
