At the risk of being self-centered. Here are a few of my own publications related to the topic. There are further work available - among others from Alan's group, I know.
Holmboe, C. (1999). A Cognitive Framework for Knowledge in Informatics: The Case of Object-Orientation. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (Proceedings of ITiCSE), 4, 17-21. Holmboe, C. (2004). A Wittgenstein Approach to the Learning of OO modelling. Computer Science Education, 14(4), 275-294. Holmboe, C. (2005). Conceptualisation and Labelling as Linguistic Challenges for Students of Data Modelling. Computer Science Education, 15(2). Christian Holmboe > All this talk about metaphors, reminded me of a question that I have > been wanting to ask for a while. > > Is anybody familiar with any work on programming languages that uses > the findings from cognitive linguistics? (i.e. the works of Talmy, > Langacker, Taylor, and maybe even Fauconnier.) >
