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Cognitive Mindfulness #12
We face the future; the past is behind us. In English we talk about the future being ahead of us, forward in time, in front of us, what lies ahead, what is to come, what we are facing, what our week...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #13
In the book The Artful Mind (edited by Mark Turner), Merlin Donald describes art as being characterized by seven features: Art is aimed at influencing the minds of an audience, and may therefore be...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #14
This comes from the introduction to a book edited by Dirk Geeraerts: If conceptual perspectivization is the central function of a grammar, the typical formal categories of grammatical description (like...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #15
Ronald Langacker is considered one of the founding fathers of the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise, his seminal work in Cognitive Grammar has influenced pretty much everyone who does anything at all in...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #16
I am rereading a book that I have been rereading on a consistent basis for the last twelve years, this time I am thinking more about consciousness than I have in previous readings; accordingly this...
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Cognitive Mindfulness #17
Reading Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar has been a dense pleasure. I am currently reading part of it in a volume edited by Dirk Geeraerts called Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings (Mouton de...
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Time is Money =/= Money is Time
We all know the metaphor prized by the busy cosmopolitan “Time Is Money”. I have some thoughts about this that are a little disjointed, but I will try to pull them together in this analysis of this...
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A quote from “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront”
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. If this be true it is obvious that second-rate writers or artists...
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Cognitive Mindfulness # 18
If Aristotle had spoken Chinese or Dakota, his logic and his categories would have been different. – Fritz Mauthner Filed under: Anthropology, Basic Assumptions of the Cognitive Linguistics Party Line,...
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How I became a Linguist: Characteristics of Intelligent Behavior
Sometime in the early nineties my mother gave me a list of Arthur Costa’s twelve characteristics of intelligent behavior. This list actually had a lot of influence in my life as I stumbled upon the...
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