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Cognitive Linguistics (linguistics framework)

One of the approaches to cognitive linguistics is called Cognitive Linguistics, with capital initials, but it is also often spelled cognitive linguistics with all lowercase letters. This movement saw its beginning in early 1980s when George Lakoff's metaphor theory was united with Ronald Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, with subsequent models of Construction Grammar following from various authors. The union entails two different approaches to linguistic and cultural evolution: that of the conceptual metaphor, and the construction.






Cognitive linguistics emerged in the 1970s
-is an approach to language that is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it.


is an approach to language that is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it.


Cognitive linguistics aresplitted into Cognitive semantics Cognitive approaches to grammar

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Three fundamental characteristics of cognitive linguistics can be derived:
the primacy of semantics in linguistic analysis, the encyclopedic nature of linguistic meaning, and the perspectival nature oflinguistic meaning.


is an approach to language that is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it.



Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics are sub-branches of cognitive linguistics



3 major hypotheses guide cognitive linguistics:
-language is not an autonomous cognitive faculty