Is There Such a Thing as Orthogonyms?

What is it about?

Cognitive linguistics view of human expressions. The article explores the cognitive semantics thesis that lexical expressions function as points of access to vast repositories of schematic concepts arising from embodied experience. By comparing various forms of communication, I find that expressions in art, science, and technology display a pattern in which expressions prompting the sense of intensity, magnitude and force are often combined into products with expressions that prompt the sense of extent, multitude and displacement. This pattern seems to be largely absent from natural language. I argue that lexical items activate the same pattern, though in a less direct way.

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Why is it important?

The proposed approach helps to unify natural language with other forms of expression such as mathematics, science and art.

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