Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of
This article analyses, within the framework of cognitive linguistics, the use of some WATER metaphors in the phraseology of three Balkan languages, Albanian, Macedonian and Modern Greek. Water, which
Abstract This text reviews the concept of ad hoc metaphor and the Sperber and Wilson´s (1995) hypothesis about metaphorical meaning as an adjustment by inferential implication between lexicalized conc
BackgroundWord frequency is the most important variable in language research. However, despite the growing interest in the Chinese language, there are only a few sources of word frequency measures ava