[...]... organization of the present Handbook, which will be presented in the fourth section of the chapter The penultimate and the final sections deal with two specific questions: can we explain the apparent appeal of Cognitive Linguistics, and what would be important questions for the further development of the framework? 2 The Theoretical Position of Cognitive Linguistics Because Cognitive Linguistics. .. dictionary of Dutch His involvement with Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when his PhD was one of the first in Europe to explore the possibilities of a prototype-theoretical model of categorization As the founding editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics, he played an important role in the international expansion of Cognitive Linguistics He organized the 1993 International Cognitive Linguistics. .. many forms of linguistic research within the field of Artificial Intelligence What, then, determines the specificity of Cognitive Linguistics within cognitive science? The question may be broken down in two more specific ones: what is the precise meaning of cognitive in Cognitive Linguistics, and introducing cognitive linguistics 5 how does this meaning differ from the way in which other forms of linguistics. .. is the president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Klaus-Uwe Panther can be reached at panther@uni-hamburg.de eric pederson (PhD 1991) is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon The overarching theme of his research is the relationship between language and conceptual processes He was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, working within Cognitive. .. in the United States in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, and she is cofounder of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association Laura Janda can be reached at janda@unc.edu theo janssen (PhD 1976) is professor of Dutch language and linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is the head of the Linguistic Research master’s program (http://www.let.vu.nl/master /linguistics/ ) His research... conceive of themselves as being a cognitive discipline? (The latter question will be answered specifically with regard to Generative Grammar.) Against the background of the basic characteristics of the cognitive paradigm in cognitive psychology, the philosophy of science, and related disciplines (see De Mey 1992), the viewpoint adopted by Cognitive Linguistics can be defined more precisely Cognitive Linguistics. .. associate professor in the English Department and coordinator of the Program in Language and Communication at the University of Hong Kong He has published a book on English in Cameroon (2001) and one on The Folk Model of the ‘Internal Self’ in Light of the Contemporary View of Metaphor: The Self as Subject and Object (1994) His research interests include sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, corpus linguistics, ... is professor of ´ ´ English language and linguistics at the University of Łodz, where she holds the position of professor ordinarius and chair of the Department of English Language Her research interests are primarily in semantics and pragmatics of natural language, corpus linguistics, and their applications in translation studies and lexicography She has published books and papers in the area of Cognitive. .. rather than a single welldefined theory Even so, the recognition that Cognitive Linguistics has not yet stabilized into a single uniform theory should not prevent us from looking for fundamental common features and shared perspectives among the many forms of research that come together under the label of Cognitive Linguistics An obvious question to start from relates to the ‘ cognitive ’ aspect of Cognitive. .. Cognitive Linguistics: in what sense exactly is Cognitive Linguistics a cognitive approach to the study of language? Terminologically, a distinction imposes itself between Cognitive Linguistics (the approach represented in this Handbook) , and (uncapitalized) cognitive linguistics (all approaches in which natural language is studied as a mental phenomenon) Cognitive Linguistics is but one form of cognitive linguistics, . alt="" THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS This page intentionally left blank THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Edited by DIRK GEERAERTS AND HUBERT CUYCKENS 1 2007 1 Oxford. shaping it. The overall design and orga- nization of the book, the selection of the topics to be treated, and the identification of the experts to treat them, were predominantly the work of the first. chapters written by experts in the field, the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics intends to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire domain of Cognitive Linguistics, from basic concepts to