Cognitive linguistics is the study of essence a particular concept in linguistic description world and its relation to realities. Concept one main categories cognitive an element that establishes connection between culture man. cluster closely related approaches language as mental phenomenon. emerged school 1970s. knowledge, language, which represents crucial role secular information structures...

For me, this is an exciting time to be a cognitive scientist and a cognitive linguist. Cognitive Linguistics has developed rapidly and with enormous success over the past two decades, providing a cognitively based account of language. When results in cognitive linguistics are taken together with results in the other cognitive sciences, a radically new view of the mind and language—and their rel...

1 Bilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, 2 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, 3 College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen U...

This paper will appear, in a slightly shortened form, as an in-depth article (# 231) in the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. For alerts on the project’s progress, visit www.cognitivescience.net. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science #231, Categorial grammar and formal semantics Michael Moortgat Professor of Computational Linguistics Utrecht Insti...

Research in cognitive linguistics has yielded valuable semantic and pragmatic insights that should be incorporated by language understanding systems. These insights have not been expressed in a rigorous enough form to be implemented. We provide a unified formalism for representing four conceptual primitives: schemas, constructions, mental spaces, and maps. These primitives are motivated by the ...

Miller (1990) suggests that communication between linguistics and psychology is hampered for essentially cognitive reasons: linguists favor simplifying explanations while psychologists favor causal explanations. This paper reformulates this suggestion as three testable hypotheses. First, scientists vary in cognitive style from rationalist/nomological to empiricist/mechanistic. Second, linguisti...

Our aim in this article is to argue that an adequate account of semantic development in early ®rst language acquisition requires a theory and methodology that synthesize the insights of cognitive and cultural linguistics with a Vygotskian sociocultural approach to human development. This involves recasting and extending the notion of embodiment, which is a central philosophical underpinning of ...