Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought and practice. It is concerned
with investigating the relationship between human language, the mind and socio-physical …

America, rock musician T. Nugent tried to rally support for the Republican candidate at a
National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis by announcing a vigorous campaign against …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

Some Internet genres, in particular Weblogs and discussion fora, have a dubious reputation
for giving voice to strongly polemical discourses or hate-speech. This chapter investigates …

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this
textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent …

In recent years, the healthcare field welcomed an emerging field of practices captured under
the umbrella term 'Big Data'. This term is surrounded with positive rhetoric and promises …

Metaphors are a common instrument of human cognition, activated when seeking to make
sense of novel and abstract phenomena. In this article we assess some of the values and …

The book analyses the conceptual and discursive traditions that underlay the Nazi use of
body, illness and parasite metaphors in their genocidal anti-Semitic ideology. Part I gives a …

Shale gas has become an energy policy priority in the United Kingdom in light of profitable
extraction activities in the United States. Since 2012 the Coalition Government has created …

Geoengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy …