In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness ...

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ no longer reflect major findings in linguistics, cognitive science, and biology.

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 2, Special Issue: Silver Anniversary Issue (summer-fall 2017), pp. 367-386 (20 pages) We outline some recent highlights in the application of cognitive ...

The work of Renaissance scholars on language, especially in Italy, deserves more attention than it has usually received. Certain sixteenth-century writers (Tolomei, Castelvetro, Scaliger, and others) ...

Dr. Micah Corum, assistant professor of English, will share his expertise on creole lexicon during the linguistics symposium "Language, Meaning, and the Mind: Views from Creolistics, Psycholinguistics ...

Analyse language in all its forms - how it shapes our lives, connects people and drives creativity. Our course draws on insights from science and arts, and gives you a fresh, hands-on approach to ...