The Dynamics of Language and Culture in Lexical Semantics and Discourse

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:2 (2026)

Editors

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | University of Pannonia

Anastasiia Carisio | Complutense University of Madrid

[Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 24:2] Expected February 2027. ca. 325 pp.

Publishing status: In production

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

The dynamics of language and culture in lexical semantics and discourse: The dynamics of language and culture in lexical semantics and discourse Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Anastasiia Carisio	337–348
Culture or cognition? The evolutionary dynamics of gender assignment in the Indo-European lexicon Gerd Carling and Nour Efrat-Kowalsky	349–370
Cultural conceptualizations of horse phraseology: A comparative analysis of Hungarian and Kazakh Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Saule Abdramanova	371–401
All bark or all bite? The role of cultural knowledge in the semantics of the Russian verb sobatchitsya versus the English to dog Alisa Egorova	402–424
A semantic trajectory of the word soznaniye ‘consciousness’ in Russian and its methodological implications Vladimir Glebkin	425–447
Multi-perspective olfactory verbs in English, German, French, and Spanish: A corpus-based comparison of smell , riechen , sentir , and oler Ádám Galac	448–472
Value system in the Russian concept of vojna ‘war’ Anastasiia Carisio	473–498
“This” or “that”? The discursive-affective functions of Mandarin demonstratives in spoken and written corpora Shuping Huang	499–524
The black hole fed on the star: Conceptualizing black holes through metaphor in popular science YouTube communication Kamar Beyazid and Judit Baranyiné Kóczy	525–546
Hybridity and linguistic adaptability of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan Dolma Tsering and Ute Wallenböck	547–572
Frame exploitation at its worst: The way Egyptian military doctors make sense of illness and cure Ahmed Abdel-Raheem	573–599
Embodied constructions: The encoding of emotions in Ancient Greek Silvia Luraghi	600–635
Review of Nikiforidou & Fried (2025): Multimodal communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective Yuying Zheng and Yumei Liu	636–644
Review of Hoffmann & Turner (2025): Creative Construction Grammar Carmen M. Bretones Callejas	645–651

Subjects and metadata

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General