Abstract Diachronic studies have played an increasingly important role in recent Cognitive Linguistics. This introductory paper provides overview of some major lines research this field, starting with the inherently panchronic approach that characterizes most flavors usage-based theory from Grammar to complex adaptive systems approaches. In particular, “constructionist turn” and “quantitative L...

language acquisition is a varied field, and there is an ocean of approaches from which one can investigate first/second language acquisition. these approaches root in different fields, basically linguistics. as for linguistics, research in language acquisition ranges from structural and generative-transformational to cognitive linguistics. while in contrast with each other in main respects theo...

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...

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...

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...