Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Cognitive Linguistics

  • Is Cognitive Linguistics growing “dominant”?

    Short answer: I don’t think so. Or at least, I’m not sure. For the backstory and my reasoning for saying so read on. Today I read a review of Constantine Campbell’s Advances in the Studies of Greek by Nicholas Ellis and Mike Aubrey over at Themelios. Lest I give any of those who know me any misconceptions, I didn’t do…

  • Grice's Maxims of Conversation

    Tim Bulkeley of SansBlogue has recently started a series of posts about communication (HERE, HERE, and HERE) that is worth checking out.  And, as I read the first couple of posts a lot of this information reminded me of Grice’s “Maxims of Conversation,” which I first encountered in some introductory books on linguistics, such as Cognitive…