cognitive linguistics
The marketplace in education: The multiplicity of metaphor in discourse
The introduction of marketplace-inspired thinking has been both praised and bemoaned by educational theorists, practitioners and the public for well over a century. What is much less widely understood, however, is that the marketplace metaphor appears in multiple guises which, albeit related through their source domain (vehicle), are often not cognitively or textually commensurable.
The marketplace in education: The multiplicity of metaphor in discourse. University of Sheffield; 2007. Metaphors of causality and containment: A cognitive challenge to the social sciences
Metaphors of causality and containment: A cognitive challenge to the social sciences. University of East Anglia, Norwich; 2005.
Language and Knowledge: Against Modularity as a Viable Theory of Language and Mind
Talk given at School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia.
Who's in charge?: Text, cognition, socialization and the freedom of spirit
Who's in charge?: Text, cognition, socialization and the freedom of spirit. In: CADAAD'08. Hertfordshire, UK; 2008.
Towards a classification of metaphor use in text: Issues in conceptual discourse analysis of a domain-specific corpus
Cognitive grammar beyond the sentence: English and Czech discourse connectives in conceptual contrast
Cognitive grammar beyond the sentence: English and Czech discourse connectives in conceptual contrast. In: New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics 2005. Brighton; 2005.
Izomorfie jako heuristicko-filozofický problém
Jedním z největších problémů, se kterými se potýkají dnešní kognitivní vědy (od lingvistiky, psychologie až po umělou inteligenci), je spolehlivost studia výstupů lidského kognitivního systému. Základním a zřídka reflektovaným předpokladem je zde totiž jistá dávka izomorfie mezi strukturami, které lze objevit ve výstupním signálu (např.
Izomorfie jako heuristicko-filozofický problém. In: Kognive 2006. Prague; 2006.