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Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research KU Leuven
Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research KU Leuven
Selecting and Analyzing Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible: Cognitive Linguistics and the Literary KU Leuven
Does Cognitive Linguistics live up to its name? University of Antwerp
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This book presents ample empirical evidence that making language learners aware of the motivated nature of language can help them comprehend and remember many words and phrases. It explores the scope and pedagogical applicability of various kinds of motivation (such as figuration, phonological appeal, and cultural factors) and proposes classroom activities that tap into these long neglected resources.
Is linguistic decision-making constrained by the same cognitive factors in student and in professional translation? Evidence from subject placement in French‑to‑Dutch news translation Ghent University
This article analyses the extent to which four well-known general cognitive constraints – syntactic priming, cognitive routinisation, markedness of coding and structural integration – impact the linguistic output of translation students and professional translators similarly. It takes subject placement variation in Dutch as a test case to gauge the effect of the four constraints and relies on a controlled corpus of student and professional ...
Current issues in the ontology and form of directive speech acts : A critical assessment of recent cognitive linguistic approaches Ghent University
Medical Decision Making Based on Fuzzy Cognitive Map and a Generalization Linguistic Weighted Power Mean for Computing with Words Hasselt University
Given high uncertainty in medicine, it is essential to use some approaches to deal with this uncertainty. Therefore, this article utilizes computing with words (CWW) in fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) for the application of a new medical decision support system. In this framework, expressed as CWW FCM, all concepts and the weights of connecting links between them are described based on interval type-2 membership functions (IT2 MFs) expressed as a ...