The Dynamics of Language and Culture in Lexical Semantics and Discourse
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:2 (2026)
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[Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 24:2] Expected December 2026. ca. 325 pp.
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Table of Contents
- The dynamics of language and culture in lexical semantics and discourseJudit Baranyiné Kóczy & Anastasiia Carisio | pp. 337–348
- Culture or cognition? The evolutionary dynamics of gender assignment in the Indo-European lexiconGerd Carling & Nour Efrat-Kowalsky | pp. 349–370
- Cultural conceptualizations of horse phraseology: A comparative analysis of Hungarian and KazakhJudit Baranyiné Kóczy & Saule Abdramanova | pp. 371–401
- All bark or all bite? The role of cultural knowledge in the semantics of the Russian verb sobatchitsya versus the English to dogAlisa Egorova | pp. 402–424
- A semantic trajectory of the word soznaniye ‘consciousness’ in Russian and its methodological implicationsVladimir Glebkin | pp. 425–447
- Multi-perspective olfactory verbs in English, German, French, and Spanish: A corpus-based comparison of smell, riechen, sentir, and olerÁdám Galac | pp. 448–472
- Value system in the Russian concept of vojna ‘war’Anastasiia Carisio | pp. 473–498
- “This” or “that”? The discursive-affective functions of Mandarin demonstratives in spoken and written corporaShuping Huang | pp. 499–524
- The black hole fed on the star: Conceptualizing black holes through metaphor in popular science YouTube communicationKamar Beyazid & Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | pp. 525–546
- Hybridity and linguistic adaptability of Tibetan Buddhism in TaiwanDolma Tsering & Ute Wallenböck | pp. 547–572
- Frame exploitation at its worst: The way Egyptian military doctors make sense of illness and cureAhmed Abdel-Raheem | pp. 573–599
- Embodied constructions: The encoding of emotions in Ancient GreekSilvia Luraghi | pp. 600–635
- K. Nikiforidou & M. Fried. 2025. Multimodal communication from a Construction Grammar PerspectiveReviewed by Yuying Zheng & Yumei Liu | pp. 636–644
- T. Hoffmann & M. Turner. 2025. Creative Construction GrammarReviewed by Carmen M. Bretones Callejas | pp. 645–651
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