As Jeffrey Wainwright (2005) notes, “it is apparent that [Geoffrey] Hill’s poetry has always known history very well indeed” (n.p.). Throughout his works, including the Mercian Hymns, historical events and figures play a central role. When references to past make their way into literature, resulting allusions often broaden work’s depth, increasing not just richness of symbolic interpretation bu...

Abstract In the literature on enculturation—the thesis according to which higher cognitive capacities result from transformations in brain driven by culture—numerical cognition is often cited as an example. A consequence of enculturation account for numerical that individuals cannot acquire competence if a symbolic system numbers not available their cultural environment. This poses problem expl...

this paper has been created in order to study the role of the meaning in creating a sense of place and in order to answer the questions about that, the meaning factor in each of its types- including the meanings that are in the mind of the human beings and the meanings that are in the place- can make which levels of meaning and also it is about that, how to achieve the various levels of sense o...

Words frequently acquire new senses, but the mental process that underlies the historical emergence of these senses is often opaque. Many have suggested that word meanings develop in non-arbitrary ways, but no attempt has been made to formalize these proposals and test them against historical data at scale. We propose that word meaning extension should reflect a drive towards cognitive economy....