I should look at some of the recent changes. My major foray into
   linguistics was first in some courses at college WAY BACK in
   1990/91, and a bit in the mid-late 90s being a member of the
   LINGUIST emailing list and having a few discussion there. (I was
   teaching myself Russian at the time and wanted to bounce some
   ideas off of working linguists and see what was the 'state of
   the art' at the time)

   Flash-forward to 2014, I discovered Embodied Cognition and
   Lakoff. Instant fan. Not perfect stuff but it's 'close enough'
   for me for now.