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Towards a Typology of Narrative Frustration
Through imaginative engagement readers of fiction become, to an extraordinary extent, the narrator’s ‘children’: they often submit themselves to the...
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Metaphors as models: Towards a typology of metaphor in ancient science
Metaphors play a crucial role in the understanding of science. Since antiquity, metaphors have been used in technical texts to describe structures...
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Linguistic and Mental Landsca** in India: Reach and Impact
This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the rural and urban linguistic landscape of India. To achieve this goal, various facets of what is...
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How Can Modifications of Meaning Influence Argumentation? The Concept and Typology of Semantic Arguments
The aim of this article is to show how modifications of meaning can influence argumentation. I present the basic concept of so-called ‘semantic...
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Inner Dialogues: Typology, Uses and Functions
In this paper we analyse “inner dialogues” as linguistic-cognitive mechanisms involved in thought and discourse planning processes: decision making,...
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Metaphor as a “Matter of Thought”: Conceptual Metaphor Theory
In this chapter we address Lakoff and Johnson’s (J Philos 77(8):453–486, 1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which, building on the earlier...
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Explaining ambiguity in scientific language
The idea that ambiguity can be productive in data science remains controversial. Efforts to make scientific publications and data intelligible to...
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Relativism Versus Absolutism in Linguistics
Whether truth is absolute or relative has been a widely discussed topic for over two thousand years in epistemology and the philosophy of science....
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Cultural Concepts of Person and Social Relationships in Tongan Language and Cultural Practices
This chapter analyzes linguistic forms and practices of person reference (particularly kinship terminology and honorific registers) in Tongan (a...
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From Semantic Deference to Semantic Externalism to Metasemantic Disagreement
We argue for an intimate relation between semantic externalism and semantic deference and propose a typology of speakers’ metasemantic views as...
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Ukraine, language policies and liberalism: a mixed second act
This article analyses Ukraine’s language policies from 2002 to 2022 within a framework of liberalism, while avoiding making normative judgements or...
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Dialogue and Persuasion
This chapter establishes two key premises. First, commitments in dialogue do not necessitate corresponding commitments in beliefs or other...
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Lyudmila Gogotishvili’s predicative concept and Russian young symbolism
The article provides a linguophilosophical analysis of theoretical approaches to the symbolism of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Andrei Bely using the...
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Faces in disguise. Masks, concealment, and deceit
The present study investigates and thematizes the interrelation between face masking, concealment, and deceit. It starts from the premise that the...
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Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution
I identify six types of phenotypic plasticity and categorize them with respect to their cognitive status. I look at differences and relations between...
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Silence, Attention, Body
This paper argues that the gesture of being silent —or “subjective silence”— can be described as a specific modulation of attention, in which...
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Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies
Across the world people in different societies structure their family relationships in many different ways. These relationships become encoded in...
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An Exercise in “Primitive Natural Science” of Naturally Occurring Types of ‘Ownership’
This paper investigates how are things on the street methodically displayed to exchibit an aspect of extra-legal ‘ownership'. Harvey Sacks proposed...
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Methodological Individualism, Naive Reductionism, and Social Facts: A Discussion with Steven Lukes
This chapter takes the form of a discussion between the editors of this volume and Steven Lukes, one the most eminent critics of methodological...
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Introduction
The Indian language study tradition goes back to the Pāṇinian School of Grammar, which dates as back as the sixth century BCE. The study of language...