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...

Embodied approaches to comprehension propose that understanding language entails performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action-sentence Compatibility Effect studies (Glenberg and Kaschak 2002) report mental simulation of motor actions during processing of motion language. But the same studies find no evidence that language comprehenders perform spatial si...

Cognitive linguistics is one of the fastest growing and influential perspectives on the nature of language, the mind, and their relationship with sociophysical (embodied) experience. It is a broad theoretical and methodological enterprise, rather than a single, closely articulated theory. Its primary commitments are outlined. These are the Cognitive Commitment-a commitment to providing a charac...

0. Introduction The past decade has seen Cognitive Linguistics (CL) emerge as an important, exciting and promising theoretical alternative to Chomskyan approaches to the study of language. Even so, sheer numbers and institutional inertia make it the case that most current neurolinguistic research either assumes that the Chomskyan formalist story is more or less correct (and thus that the task o...

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is one of the principal branches of “second generation cognitive science”—the alliance of new approaches emerging from what has been called the “second cognitive revolution” of the last decade of the 20 century (Harré and Gillett, 1994). It is also the rightful inheritor of an older tradition, antedating the behaviorist ascendancy in mid-20 century psychology from whi...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

Cognitive linguistics has always been an important branch of linguistics, and during 20th century, experienced three revolutions: Saussure’s structuralism revolution, Chomsky’s TG cognitive functional linguistics’ revolution to Joe’s revolution. Time 21st Wang Yin, a famous professor in China, put forward revolutionary point about based on the research philosophy. He proposed new concept, Embod...

1. Basics: Computational Linguistics (CL) between research and technology 2. Application field 2.1 The paradigm of Machine Translation (MT) and the desire for overcoming the language barriers 2.1.1 The technological situation 2.1.2 Short overview of the history of machine translation 2.1.3 Goals for research in MT 2.2 The paradigm of Natural Language Understanding 2.3 Mainstream Topics of Compu...

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...

Semantics is composed meaning of language expressions and perceptions at the levels of words, phrase, sentence, paragraph, and essay. The basic unit of formal semantics is a concept as a formal model of words in a natural language. Cognitive linguistics focuses on cognitive semantics and its interaction with underlying syntactic structures. A denotational mathematics known as semantic algebra i...