%0 Journal Article
%T “A HUMAN FACE” OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
%A Pawelec, Andrzej
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.17.018.7092
%N Volume 134, Issue 3
%P 265-272
%K Cognitive Linguistics, linguistic mentalism, figurative language, articulation
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/a-human-face-of-cognitive-linguistics
%X 
	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”.