%0 Journal Article %T From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure by Eve Sweetser. From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure by Eve Sweetser. %A Robson de Souza Bittencourt %J Ilha do Desterro %D 2008 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina %X One might ask whether there is any other way to define cognitive semantics than by its opposition to truth-conditional semantics, or any variant of it for that matter. Indeed, objectivistic philosophy has provided the background to cognitive semantics, which in turn has raised serious questions about its reliability to deal with natural language. One might ask whether there is any other way to define cognitive semantics than by its opposition to truth-conditional semantics, or any variant of it for that matter. Indeed, objectivistic philosophy has provided the background to cognitive semantics, which in turn has raised serious questions about its reliability to deal with natural language. %U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7385