Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association

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ORCID logoFrancisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez | University of La Rioja, Logroño
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Mahum Hayat Khan | University of La Rioja, Logroño (research fellow)
ORCID logoCarla Ovejas-Ramírez | University of La Rioja, Logroño
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ORCID logoWei-lun Lu | Masaryk University

The Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) offers an international forum for the publication of original high-quality research from a cognitive perspective in all areas of linguistic conceptualization and communication.

Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones.

Volumes 1–7 (2003–2009) were published under the title Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics.

RCL publishes its articles Online First.

As of volume 8 (2010) Review of Cognitive Linguistics is the continuation of the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics.
ISSN: 1877-9751 | E-ISSN: 1877-976X
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Latest articles

15 November 2024

  • Embodied constructions : The encoding of emotions in Ancient Greek
    Silvia Luraghi
  • 12 November 2024

  • An inclusive case study of multimodal metaphor : Embodied, cultural and ideological contexts of a labyrinth in the contemporary art discourse on refugee migration
    Eleni Butulussi
  • Metaphorical framing of political events through ENTERTAINMENT scenarios : A cross-cultural perspective
    Jurga Cibulskienė , Inesa Šeškauskienė Virginija Masiulionytė
  • 21 October 2024

  • Applying Cognitive Linguistics to elucidate the meanings of the particles IN/OUT and UP/DOWN in L2 classrooms : Pedagogical experience vs. research findings
    Ana M. Piquer-Píriz Marta Martín-Gilete | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 450–475
  • Introduction : Lessons learned at the intersection of applied cognitive linguistics and L2 classrooms
    Reyes Llopis-García Ana M. Piquer-Píriz | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 301–308
  • 17 October 2024

  • Shortcomings and challenges in the intersection of L2 pedagogy and applied cognitive linguistics : A case study of the Spanish simple pasts
    Reyes Llopis-García Irene Alonso-Aparicio | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 426–449
  • 1 October 2024

  • More than tough luck : Navigating challenges in teaching/learning L2 Spanish comparative constructions
    Zeina Alhmoud | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 402–425
  • 17 September 2024

  • Frame exploitation at its worst : The way Egyptian military doctors make sense of illness and cure
    Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
  • Figurativeness of the Japanese flag : A multilevel analysis of the Japan 2011 earthquake distress relief posters
    Tomasz Dyrmo
  • 29 August 2024

  • Metaphor clusters in political discourse
    Angeliki Athanasiadou
  • Categorization of body parts in Dholuo : From culture to taxonomy
    Joseph Jaoko Ochieng Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
  • Pedagogical potential of Cognitive Grammar descriptions for the pluperfect in Spanish : Language users’ judgements and corpus searches as pre-experimental validation criteria
    Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado Alejandro Castañeda Castro | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 374–401
  • 16 July 2024

  • The view of meaning from a “postclassical” perspective
    Vladimir Glebkin
  • Between source language constructions and target language expectations : An analysis of passive constructions in translated and non-translated Spanish
    Ulrike Oster Isabel Tello
  • 25 June 2024

  • A look at, inside, and outside metaphors : The multitudinal interactions of metaphorical meaning
    Herbert L. Colston
  • 21 June 2024

  • football club is family : Metaphor and the reconstruction of collective identity
    Maria Theodoropoulou
  • W.-L. Lu , N. Kudrnáčová L. A. Janda (Eds.). 2021. Corpus approaches to language, thought and communication
    Reviewed by Maria Istvanova | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 611–616
  • M. Bagli . 2021. Tastes we live by. The linguistic conceptualisation of taste in English
    Reviewed by María Ángeles Ruiz-Moneva | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 605–610
  • 13 June 2024

  • Challenges and potential of quasi-experimental studies in cognitive linguistics applied to language teaching and learning
    Beatriz Martín-Gascón | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 354–373
  • 6 June 2024

  • Metaphorical and non-metaphorical meaning from spatial relations
    Marlene Johansson Falck Lacey Okonski
  • 4 June 2024

  • Applying cognitive grammar to the Count/Mass Distinction : An exploratory case study with pre-service teachers
    Eloy Romero Muñoz , Remy Decorte Dylan Dachet
  • 7 May 2024

  • Intertextual satire in media discourse : Conceptual blends
    Oksana Doichyk , Vita Yurchyshyn Yuriy Velykoroda
  • 29 April 2024

  • Frames and semantic roles in metaphorical mappings : A contrastive study of English boil and Spanish hervir
    Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando Montserrat Esbrí-Blasco
  • Setting subject and the inferential cleft construction in Korean
    Chongwon Park , Jaehoon Yeon Jong-Bok Kim
  • Raising the bar : Enhancing study design and validity in L2 idiom research
    Kris Ramonda | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 330–353
  • 23 April 2024

  • Image schemas and (point)-to-point event model for the macro-event
    Fuyin Thomas Li
  • Testing the benefits of relating figurative idioms to their literal underpinnings : The role of individual differences
    Liting Luo Frank Boers | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 309–329
  • 2 April 2024

  • Possessive construction in the Kurdish language : A cognitive perspective
    Masoud Dehghan , Hossein Davari Ebrahim Badakhshan
  • A. Hijazo-Gascón . 2021. Moving across languages: Motion events in Spanish as a second language
    Reviewed by Rosa Alonso Alonso | RCL 22:1 (2024) pp. 296–300
  • S. Peña-Cervel F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez . 2022. Figuring out figuration: A cognitive linguistic account
    Reviewed by Dana Kratochvílová | RCL 22:1 (2024) pp. 289–295
  • 27 February 2024

  • Vete a freír cristales : The interplay of convention and innovation in a constructional idiom of rejection in Spanish
    Pedro Ivorra Ordines Belén López Meirama
  • Subjectification and conativity : Origins and development of the verbal construction tratar deinfinitive
    Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta Mar Garachana Camarero
  • 19 February 2024

  • The semantics of the polysemic Amharic word fit ‘face’ : For a new perspective in the cross-linguistic study of body-part terms
    Sérgio N. Menete Guiying Jiang
  • 13 February 2024

  • RA-marking, delimitation, and TA-headed directional PPs in Persian
    Farhad Moezzipour Neda Moezzipour
  • 2 February 2024

  • Contrasting the semantics of prepositions through a cognitive linguistic approach : The case of English on, Italian su, and Russian na
    Marika Kalyuga Sofya Yunusova
  • 23 January 2024

  • DOG and CAT proverbs : Cognitive operations and cultural constraints
    Huei-ling Lai Hsiao-Ling Hsu
  • The semantic access mechanism of L3 Spanish words : Evidence from a cross-linguistic priming effect by Chinese native speakers
    Ting Wang Jingyun Yang
  • 14 December 2023

  • Conventional metaphors in English as a lingua franca : An analysis of speech metaphors in three academic seminars
    Rafael Alejo-González
  • 12 December 2023

  • Conceptualizing achromaticity : The semantics of Finnish basic colour term harmaa (‘grey’)
    Veera Hatakka
  • 27 November 2023

  • Reflections on the study of language : An interview with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
    Delia Bentley Kiyoko Toratani | RCL 21:2 (2023) pp. 576–595
  • 9 November 2023

  • Zero-sum or Win-win Game? Comparative studies on sports/game metaphors and ideological framing in economic news on Sino, EU and US trade disputes
    Dongman Cai
  • Metaphor as a key tool in personal development discourse : An extended conceptual metaphor theory approach to the study of Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The new psychology of success
    Yvan Rudhel Megaptche Megaptche Iarimalala Jenny Ramanantsoa
  • 19 October 2023

  • Evidential propositions as situational scenarios : From semantic structure to meaning construction
    Ghsoon Reda
  • 16 October 2023

  • K.-U. Panther . 2022. Introduction to cognitive pragmatics
    Reviewed by Ting-Ting Christina Hsu , Li-Chi Chen Michał Janowski | RCL 21:2 (2023) pp. 602–612
  • 22 September 2023

  • The COVID-19 pandemic and changing meanings of flatten the curve : A cognitive semantic approach
    Ji-in Kang Iksoo Kwon | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 505–540
  • 15 September 2023

  • The Spanish subjunctive and grounding : A cognitive approach to the cante paradigm
    Dana Kratochvílová | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 564–604
  • The physics of time : How visual entropy cues influence spatial conceptions of time
    Renqiang Wang , Heng Li Bo Yang
  • 11 July 2023

  • A mental spaces analysis of religious identity discourse
    Charles M. Mueller , Peter Richardson Stephen Pihlaja | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 541–563
  • 27 June 2023

  • Cuanto(s) más datos, (tanto) mejor : A corpus-based study of the Spanish comparative correlative construction
    Jakob Horsch | RCL 22:1 (2024) pp. 204–257
  • 23 June 2023

  • The polysemy of the Japanese temperature adjective atsui : A behavioral profile analysis
    Haitao Wang , Toshiyuki Kanamaru Ke Li | RCL 22:2 (2024) pp. 476–504
  • 6 June 2023

  • Hydro-political power of the Nile : A cognitive-linguistic analysis of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Egyptian–Ethiopian discourse
    Reham El Shazly May Samir El Falaky | RCL 22:1 (2024) pp. 1–35
  • Capturing meaningful generalizations at varying degrees of resolution : The case of the family of ser muy de-PP constructions in present-day Spanish
    Francisco Gonzálvez-García | RCL 22:1 (2024) pp. 151–203
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