Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives
Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives
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认知语言学简介:当前应用和未来前景
DOI:
10.1515/9783110197761.0.1
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
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作者:
G. Kristiansen;M. Achard;R. Dirven;Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
1. General orientation of the volume: towards an empirical revolution The collective volume Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives brings together specific case studies and critical overviews of work in a variety of CL strands. Written by prominent researchers, the chapters of the volume thus provide the scientific community with an updated survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics. Most authors furthermore go beyond the more immediate scope of describing or exemplifying state-of-the-art research (e.g. by providing the reader with a generally accessible synthesis or a specialized case study) and explicitly address a number of pressing questions pertaining to future perspectives and future research agendas. Together with its companion volume Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings (Cognitive Linguistics Research 34, edited by Dirk Geeraerts), it constitutes a highly informative resource for linguists and scholars in neighbouring disciplines, and in general for any scholar wishing to become familiar with what Cognitive Linguistics is all about. Whereas Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings offers an introductory survey of the foun-dational concepts of Cognitive Linguistics, the present volume focuses on more recent theoretical developments, illustrates the many fields of application that CL already covers (both within linguistics and in an interdis-ciplinary environment), and identifies the future research trends that CL is now heading for. At the same time, the present volume is the very first issue in the new book series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL). In collaboration with its sister series Cognitive Linguistics Research, ACL offers a platform for high quality work which applies the rich framework developed in Cog-nitive Linguistics to a wide range of different fields of application. These 2 and still many other fields, often within an interdisciplinary framework. The goals of ACL will be summarised in section 3 of this introduction. First and foremost, however, as the subtitle suggests, the volume overviews and explores the major avenues of the cognitive linguistic enterprise at present and towards the future. Over the last two, perhaps even three, decades, Cognitive Linguistics has gradually but firmly established itself as a complete and innovating discipline, but certainly not one which for these reasons has ceased to evolve, nor to expand. The contributions in this volume testify to the existence of a number of different strands, the most important of which may be summarised as follows. First, a number of basic concepts (cf. the twelve cornerstones of Cognitive Linguistics described and exemplified in Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings) …