Cognitive Linguistics as a Methodological Paradigm 1. Cognition 1.1. Introductory Remarks
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The word cognitive has become very in. cognitive pragmatics (Nemeth 2001) and, ultimately, cognitive linguistics. How is cognitive linguistics different from simply linguistics? Contemporary literature suggests a variety of possible answers, but common to them all is an understanding that " languaging " is a cognitive activity (Clark 1996, Verschueren 1999), and since cognition is the essential functional feature of a living organism (Maturana 1970), cogni-tive linguistics is, naturally, concerned with the human factor and with cognitive structures categorized and represented in language (Fox, Jurafsky, Michaelis, 1999). This implies that language as an object of study should be analyzed along the following three dimensions:
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