About

Professor, Department of Cognitive Science

Todd Oakley’s areas of specialization include cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and rhetoric. These areas of specialization provide the frameworks and methods for tracing the micro-cognitive and phenomenological bases of attention as they make their presence felt in the higher-order activities of social awareness, discourse, and persuasion.

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Cognitive Semiotics, Linguistics, Social Cognition, Rhetoric, Language of Economics & Finance, Institutions