اللسانيات الإدراكية و تاريخ اللسانيات

Abstract

This study focuses on the past of Cognitive linguistics and its history in order to make clear that some of the theoreticians that served as a negative reference point for Cognitive Linguistics were actually closer to the cognitive approach than can be derived from the discussions. The study will not, however, try to give an exhaustive overview of all relevant historical sources- actual ones or neglected ones. In particular, although the long past of Cognitive Linguistics overlaps significantly with that of philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, we it concentrate on the history of linguistics only, with an occasional excursion to the history of philosophy. Section 2 of this chapter briefly describes the internal history of Cognitive Linguistics. The following sections discuss three topic areas of specific importance for Cognitive Linguistics: polysemy, metaphor, and metonymy; the embodiment of cognition; and the Gestalt nature of linguistics.