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What have been the most significant contributions of Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching in recent years? One of the most significant contributions of Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching has been a conceptual shift — a reorientation away from viewing grammar as an arbitrary set of rules to be memor...

What have been the most significant contributions of Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching in recent years?

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Language, Linguistics and LLMs

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Can artificial intelligence ever truly grasp 'meaning,' or is it merely simulating the surface level of human thought? So when we ask whether AI “understands,” we must be careful. It produces outputs that look like understanding because it has learned the distributional patterns associated with meaningful language use...

Can artificial intelligence ever truly grasp 'meaning,' or is it merely simulating the surface level of human thought?

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What differentiates a linguist working within a Cognitive Linguistic framework from scholars operating in other theoretical traditions?

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A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:

The Deliberation Taboo

Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/

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Many Minds: Seven metaphors for AI If you wanted a petri dish for understanding metaphors—how they emerge and evolve and jostle with each other—it would be hard to do better than the world of AI. We talk about AI systems variously as c...

I enjoyed talking with @kensycoop.bsky.social on the Many Minds podcast about the metaphors we use to conceptualize AI.

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Across history, linguists have insisted that language sets humans apart from other species. But a new study demonstrating AI’s startlingly complex “metalinguistic” skills threatens to throw mankind’s exclusivity out the window.

We can all agree that metaphors are nice. But are they also sometimes necessary? Could there be ideas we simply can't approach literally, thoughts we can't think without metaphors?

Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @sflusberg.bsky.social!

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"We can now see ourselves...in a daffodil, an earthworm, perhaps even a bacterium, as well as a chimpanzee."

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What is Metalinguistic Awareness? Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to pause and reflect about language instead of just using it automatically. Learn about its 5 components and how to develop it.

Some benefits of metalinguistic awareness:

- It makes reading easier and more enjoyable
- It improves language learning speed
- It makes conversations more efficient because you're using your words carefully

https://aboutlinguistics.com/explore/what-is-metalinguistic-awareness/

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The science of consciousness needs an embodied and developmental turn 😎

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Analogy and metaphor galore!

I was interviewed by the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcast about metaphor and analogy in science:

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Pairs well with @sflusberg.bsky.social's interview on metaphor on the @manymindspod.bsky.social podcast
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Impulse and inhibition: the complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion Speaking a second language doesn’t impact moral decisions as much as previously thought.

Impulse and inhibition: the complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion
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The Myth of the "Native Speaker" by Cristina Lozano.
Spare a moment and read it. Such an awesome read! 👇

Cristina Lozano | Cristina Lozano Argüelles | Substack All things bilingual: PhD-level eye rolls at bad language takes. Click to read Cristina Lozano, by Cristina Lozano Argüelles, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Sure professor, I am looking forward to staying in touch with you on email. Thank you for your kind response.

Hello professor Jonathan, I hope you're doing well. I'm interested in starting my PhD in Cognitive Science with you under your supervision. Would you be interested in exploring causality across cultures? E.g., a comparative investigation of causal schemas in Pakistani and Austrian contexts.

Interesting work! Congratulations!

Happy World Linguistics Day! #linguistics #26thNov_2025

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A Study on How People Describe Abstract Concepts Thank you for your interest in this research study! This survey is part of a project in cognitive linguistics exploring how people use language to describe abstract ideas. It should take approximately...

Hi everyone! I'm working on my MA research about the language we use to talk about abstract things. If you're a native English speaker over 18, I'd be super grateful if you could take my 10-15 minute survey. It's completely anonymous! Kindly, click the link: forms.gle/VusWCLE46p7M...

When You’ve Only Known Me in One Language — Kevin Wong, Ph.D. A friend and I were talking about our childhoods outside the U.S.—how we grew up, what we missed, and what’s been hard to translate into our lives here. At one point, she said, a little exasperated bu...

What do we miss about someone when we only know them in one language? If you’ve never heard someone in the language that holds their memories, humor, and sense of home—you may not have met all of them yet. www.kevin-m-wong.com/blog/2025/4/...

Thank you for sharing the talks on YouTube!

often serve as subtle well-being checks. This reflects a shared human tendency: when we start talking, we start by making sure the other person is okay. Language encodes care.

#Linguistics #Pragmatics #etymology #greetings

Also in Chinese "你好/ni hao“ which literally means "you okay/good". Therefore, the above cross-linguistic examples center on peace, health, care and well-being which suggest a universal communicative pattern. To sum up, greetings aren’t just ways to begin a conversation. They

probably, "good to see you're safely here". Similarly, "Asalam o Alaikum" in Arabic means "peace be upon you" or which could mean "hope you're okay".