Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward

Dagmar Divjak, Natalia Levshina, Jane Klavan

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Abstract

Since its conception, Cognitive Linguistics as a theory of language has been enjoying ever increasing success worldwide. With quantitative growth has come qualitative diversification, and within a now heterogeneous field, different – and at times opposing – views on theoretical and methodological matters have emerged. The historical “prototype” of Cognitive Linguistics may be described as predominantly of mentalist persuasion, based on introspection, specialized in analysing language from a synchronic point of view, focused on West-European data (English in particular), and showing limited interest in the social and multimodal aspects of communication. Over the past years, many promising extensions from this prototype have emerged. The contributions selected for the Special Issue take stock of these extensions along the cognitive, social and methodological axes that expand the cognitive linguistic object of inquiry across time, space and modality.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)447–463
JournalCognitive Linguistics
Volume27
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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