Lexicography – the art and science of dictionary-making – and semantics – the study of meaning in language – are intertwined disciplines that illuminate how words are organised, defined and used.

This presentation covers a range of topics including language development, connotation, denotation, semantics, language and gender, language and race. It ends up focusing on how words can make such a ...

What drew you to this field of study? There is a special kind of beauty in the world. If you’ve ever enjoyed the rhythm of a song or the perfect symmetry of a flower, then you know the sort of beauty ...

Semantic processing and representation lie at the heart of human language comprehension and production. Research in this area investigates how meaning is encoded, stored and retrieved in the mind, ...

People use sentences to convey information about themselves and about the world in which we live. This course provides an introduction to the study of how meaning is encoded and expressed in natural ...

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the interest in corpus linguistics – the quantitative analysis of large volumes of text, sometimes aided with machine learning – to inform legal meaning.

The Semantics Workshop is a weekly meeting run by graduate students where students and faculty get together informally to discuss papers, present ongoing research and discuss aspects of the ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada has opened applications for its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics program for September 2027.