Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

External reference: https://openalex.org/T11148

  1. Finnish words for light and day reflect seasonal life in the north
    Study of Finnish lexical and semantic frameworks for light and temporal concepts in response to extreme seasonal daylight variation in Nordic latitudes.
  2. Western and Middle Eastern media differ in framing Al-Assad's collapse
    Transitivity analysis reveals how Western and Middle Eastern media used distinct linguistic strategies to represent Al-Assad's regime collapse according to ideological positions.
  3. A three-part model links literary reading to cognition and culture
    Three-dimensional model integrating discourse processing, embodied cognition, and shared conceptualisations to explain literary reading processes and reader cognitive-emotional engagement with texts.
  4. Amharic “heart” is linked to positive emotions
    Cognitive linguistic analysis of Amharic ləbb 'heart' reveals systematic metonymic associations with positive emotions and cross-linguistic patterns in body-based emotional conceptualization.
  5. Language(s) of War: A Discursive Framework for the Linguistic Construction of Interstate Conflict
    Explores how language and discourse actively construct interstate conflict, analyzing militarized metaphors and security framings that normalize war despite legal prohibitions against violence.
  6. Real jury deliberation analysis links laughter, gesture, and justice
    First multimodal analysis of actual jury deliberation examines how jurors construct justice through embodied practices including laughter, gesture, and poetic interplay.