In the literature, some researchers (e.g. Gross, Fischer and Miller 1989, Charles, Reed and Derryberry 1994) treat antonym pairs as either canonical (for example old/young, cold/hot and happy/sad) or non-canonical (aged/youthful, cool/hot, happy/miserable), while others assume or argue for a continuum between the two categories (e.g. Herrmann, Chaffin, Conti, Peters and Robbins 1979, Murphy 200...

Several videogames allow players to form their own narratives by making the player choose certain options with different dialogues and thus representations. This can be problematic when exploring representation of gender from perspective player’s experiences. I argue that one way overcome this is use corpus linguistic methods. In paper, videogame series The Witcher (CD Projekt Red, 2007, CD 201...

The present study investigated the contribution of lexico-semantic associations to impairments in establishing reference in schizophrenia. We examined event-related potentials as schizophrenia patients and healthy, demographically matched controls read five-sentence scenarios. Sentence 4 introduced a noun that referred back to three possible referents introduced in Sentences 1-3. These referent...

Our model of sentence comprehension includes at least grammatical processes important for structure-building, and executive resources such as working memory that support these grammatical processes. We hypothesized that a core network of brain regions supports grammatical processes, and that additional brain regions are activated depending on the working memory demands associated with processin...

The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

We are often required to interpret discordant emotional signals. Whilst equivalent cognitive paradigms cause noticeable conflict via their behavioural and psychophysiological effects, the same may not necessarily be true for discordant emotion. The skin conductance (SCR) and heart rate (HR) of participants were measured during a classic Stroop task and one in which the emotions conveyed by lexi...

Abstract The aim of this study is to probe for the discursive construction shared beliefs about capital punishment. Drawing upon a specialized corpus execution news, explores representational practices, including social actor naming, action description, and incorporation voices, compares respective lexico-grammatical choices that are orchestrated reconstruct events executions in Thailand from 1...

The aim of this paper is to propose a method of simulating – in a syntactico-semantic parser – the behaviour of semantic roles in case of a language that has no resources such as VerbNet of FrameNet, but has relatively rich morphosyntax (here: Polish). We argue that using an approximation of semantic roles derived from syntactic (grammatical functions) and morphosyntactic (grammatical cases) fe...