Holistic Linguistics: Anthropocentric Foundations and the Functional-Cognitive Paradigm

The holistic view in linguistics

invisible feature that distinguishes the two noun stems. And, again, the atomistic view allows many equivalent solutions that we have no ground to choose from. The holistic approach, on the other hand, imposes us an explanation of the behaviour of híd and szív in terms of the different patterns they obey, and this is the single and necessary explanation within a holistic framework. We can expla...

Playing from the inside: Holistic villages as a paradigm

In 1958, Corbu advocated a ‘new architecture’ for a ‘new man’. The omnipresence of the architect creating spaces to model a society led to architects building many sins. After that the influence of architecture in the lives of its inhabitants began to be a subject ignored. A lot of contemporary architecture limited itself to the production of design or service to capital of the day. In 1...

Pragmatism, Ideology and Embodiment: William James and the Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics

the effect of functional/notional approach on the proficiency level of efl learners and its evaluation through functional test

in fact, this study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any difference between the effect of functional/notional approach and the structural approaches to language teaching on the proficiency test of efl learners? 2. can a rather innovative language test referred to as "functional test" ge devised so so to measure the proficiency test of efl learners, and thus be as much reliable an...

Cognitive Linguistics

Cognitive linguistics has emerged in the last twenty-five years as a powerful approach to the study of language, conceptual systems, human cognition, and general meaning construction. It addresses within language the structuring of basic conceptual categories such as space and time, scenes and events, entities and processes, motion and location, force and causation. It addresses the structuring...