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, ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

In this paper we reexamine the question of whether questions are inherently intensional entities. We do so by proposing a novel extensional theory of questions, based on a re-interpretation of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the philosophy ...

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, ...

Semantics is studied for a number of different reasons but perhaps one of the main reasons could be: “If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication ...