Cognitive linguistics has emerged in the last twenty-five years as a powerful approach to the study of language, conceptual systems, human cognition, and general meaning construction. It addresses within language the structuring of basic conceptual categories such as space and time, scenes and events, entities and processes, motion and location, force and causation. It addresses the structuring...

One remarkably striking observation about language, seemingly trivial but actually quite important, is that languages change through time. It is at least conceivable that language could remain unchanged over time, as is the case with some other human institutions, e.g. various tabus or the rules to come games, and with some aspects of human communication systems, e.g. Morse Code or the value of...

This article presents an overview of the goals and methods of semantic typology, the study of the distribution of semantic categories across languages. Results from this field inform theoretical accounts of syntax-semantics interface phenomena, as well as the nature of the relationship between language and cognition. This article discusses a variety of quantitative methods that represent recent...

Critical applied linguistics is a field of inquiry and practice that can be understood in several ways. It brings critical focus—where the as social critique rather than thinking—to linguistic work. A central goal to connect questions domination (contingent contextual effects power), disparity (inequitable access material cultural goods), discrimination (ideological discursive frames exclusion)...

The economic theory of language policy interprets as an phenomenon, the situation economic, market situation, and integral element policy. article presents attempt to systematize develop theoretical methodological aspects this promising area research at intersection economics sociolinguistics.