2010/1/26 Richard O'Keefe :
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:57 PM, alex wrote:
>> I think we can be influenced by metaphors without necessarily being
>> conscious of them.
>
> We can be influenced by a whole lot of things, including apparently
> the colour red. The question is whether we are influenced *
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.)
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 (Pr
