Cognitive Linguistics

Linguist Dr. Doping speaks about theory of metaphor, cognitive commitment and autonomous language concepts. What is studying cognitive linguistics? What are the main areas of research? And how cognitive linguistics inscribed in the cognitive science?

Cognitive linguistics is this area of linguistic theory that links linguistic phenomena with a wide range of different phenomena related to human mental activity, such as memory, attention, categorization, and others. The fact that human language - is something twofold, it is also the way to store a variety of knowledge and way of sharing such knowledge between two or more people.

Cognitive Linguistics deals with two groups of events: online and offline. Off-line phenomenon more studied in the framework of cognitive linguistics. This direction examines first language semantics, that is, the values of various words, phrases stored in the human memory.

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Speaking of the scientific program of cognitive linguistics, I would like to mention the cognitive engagement. This concept was introduced by George Lakoff. According to cognitive commitment that assumes a linguist who considers himself a cognitive linguist, it is necessary to discuss, study and seek to understand the language phenomena in connection with the whole complex of knowledge that exist in humans.