Cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistics and/or cognitive science, which aims to provide accounts of language that mesh well with current understandings of the human mind. The guiding principle behind this area of linguistics is that language use must be explained with reference to the underlying mental processes.Important cognitive linguists include George Lakoff, Len Talmy[?], Ronald Langacker[?], Mark Johnson[?], Mark Turner[?], Gilles Fauconnier[?], Charles Fillmore[?], and Adele Goldberg.
Aspects of cognitive linguistics include:
Two important areas of cognitive linguistics are conceptual metaphor theory, heavily influenced by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson[?], and conceptual blending theory, heavily influenced by Gilles Fauconnier[?] and Mark Turner[?]. There is some overlap between the two, and the terminology is somewhat overlapping and not entirely stable. A helpful reference in sorting out the two subdisciplines is the 1999 paper by Grady, Oakley, and Coulson listed in "further reading".
Further reading
- Gilles Fauconnier[?] has written a brief, manifesto-like introduction to Cognitive linguistics, which compares it to mainstream, Chomsky-inspired linguistics. See Introduction to Methods and Generalizations. In T. Janssen and G. Redeker (Eds). Scope and Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics. The Hague: Mouton De Gruyter. Cognitive Linguistics Research Series. (on-line version (http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Fauconnier_99.html))
- Grady, Oakley, and Coulson (1999). "Blending and Metaphor". In Metaphor in cognitive linguistics, Steen and Gibbs (eds.). Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (online version (http://cogweb.ucla.edu/CogSci/Grady_99.html))
He tactfully ignored her timidity
a bashful child who wanted to be friends but hardly dared.
As he talked Yuki San gained courage, and ventured many curious
completely to fill the room. At first she saw only a strange
unfamiliar speech, she discovered a long-lost playmate.
Through all the years that she had struggled for an education at the
awkward, foreign boy, whose mouth made funny curves and whose eyes
he had grown! How different his clothes from any she had ever seen
remembered so well! She looked and looked again, drinking in the tones
crimson to her cheeks.
But gradually her shyness wore away, and when Merrit asked her how in
his command, she ventured to answer: "I know; I give you the teach of
bargain.
But the girl drew back, troubled.
"No, no, you no _go_! You stay. I give you all my intellect of Nippon
school in the morning."
By this time the mother and father had learned of the guest's arrival
and the disposal of his possessions in his small apartment was a
examined and exclaimed over, and when Merrit drew out a package of
excitement became.
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