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“A HUMAN FACE” OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Publication date: 30.10.2017

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 3, pp. 265 - 272

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.17.018.7092

Authors

Andrzej Pawelec
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-9065 Orcid
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“A HUMAN FACE” OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Abstract

In this article, I want to put forward the following argument: Cognitive Linguistics – after a long hegemony of Chomskyan formalist linguistics – has offered models of language as “motivated” by general and prior cognitive abilities; as such it has been able to provide representations of a much wider range of linguistic phenomena (both grammatical and lexical); however, the “human face” of Cognitive Linguistics is that of a generic human being rather than that of actual people: members of particular social communities in which languages develop through “figuration” and “articulation”.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 3, pp. 265 - 272

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“A HUMAN FACE” OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

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“A HUMAN FACE” OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-9065

Andrzej Pawelec
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-9065 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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