2018
Webies in Cyberspace
Safranj JelisavetaCorresponding author
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia and Montenegro.
Overview
Conceptual semantics is the study of how meaning is structured in the mind and expressed through language, focusing on the mental representation of concepts and the relationship between words and the ideas they encode. It treats meaning as grounded in cognitive structures, examining how the human conceptual system organizes knowledge and how that organization is mapped onto linguistic form. As an approach within the broader study of meaning, conceptual semantics seeks to explain how speakers understand and combine words to convey complex ideas, how concepts relate to one another, and how linguistic meaning connects to thought and perception. The field draws on linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy, and it has practical relevance to disciplines such as natural language processing and artificial intelligence, where representing meaning computationally is a central challenge. By analyzing the conceptual underpinnings of language, researchers gain insight into how humans categorize experience, form abstractions, and communicate shared understanding. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to conceptual semantics and Language Research, supporting linguists, cognitive scientists, and scholars studying the structure of meaning, the mental representation of concepts, and the relationship between language and thought.
Research published in this journal
1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.