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There seems to exist a tension, in other words, between a broad methodological tendency 
in Cognitive Linguistics that considers introspection the most or perhaps the only appro­
priate method for studying meaning and a marginal but increasing tendency to apply em­
pirical methods that are customary in the other cognitive sciences. Resolving that tension 
is likely to be on the agenda of Cognitive Linguistics in the near future.
3. As we mentioned and illustrated several times in the course of this introductory chap­
ter, Cognitive Linguistics is far from being a unified and stabilized body of knowledge. We 
have tried, in the course of compiling and editing this
Handbook
, not to make the enter­
prise of Cognitive Linguistics look more unified than it actually is. Nevertheless,
theoreti­
cal unification
may be expected high on the future research agenda of Cognitive Linguis­
tics. In this respect, we hope that the survey of Cognitive Linguistics that is offered in the 
present volume will not only introduce novices to the full richness and dynamism of re­
search in Cognitive Linguistics, but that it may also help the cognitive linguistic commu­
nity at large to define the directions for the future more clearly.
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