Rescuing generative linguistics: Too little, too late?

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 690-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Spivey ◽  
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Systems Approaches ◽  
Generative Linguistics

Jackendoff's Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution attempts to reconnect generative linguistics to the rest of cognitive science. However, by minimally acknowledging decades of work in cognitive linguistics, treating dynamical systems approaches somewhat dismissively, and clinging to certain fundamental dogma while revising others, he clearly risks satisfying no one by almost pleasing everyone.

Advances in Embodied Construction Grammar

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Jerome A. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Body Problem ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Mind Body Problem ◽  
The Mind ◽  
New Applications

Abstract This paper describes the continuing goals and present status of the ICSI/UC Berkeley efforts on Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG). ECG is semantics-based formalism grounded in cognitive linguistics. ECG is the most explicitly inter-disciplinary of the construction grammars with deep links to computation, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Work continues on core cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues, including aspects of the mind/body problem. Much of the recent emphasis has been on applications and on tools to facilitate new applications. Extensive documentation plus downloadable systems and grammars can be found at the ECG Homepage.1

The problem of universalism in (diachronic) cognitive linguistics

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Alexander Bergs
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
Language History ◽  
New Perspective

Abstract Modern cognitive science and cognitive linguistics are characterized by a universalist perspective, i.e., they are investigating features and principles of cognition which can be found in all members of the human species. This in turn means that they should not only be relevant for present-day cognizers and language users, but also historically. This theoretical, programmatic paper first explores this notion of universalism in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics and suggests that the notion of cognitive universalism should be supplemented by perspectives from cognitive sociology and social cognition. These offer a middle ground in that they look at cognition as it is socially and culturally grounded, and hence inter-individual, but yet not universal. A final section on diachronic cognitive linguistics shows that in language history all three perspectives, individual, social, and universal, can have their place, and that one line of future research should explore this new perspective of social cognition in language history in order to arrive at a fuller picture of historical language users and their cognition.

Teaching English grammar on linguocognitive basis

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Sergei Motov
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor

The peculiarities of the modern educational process require new approaches to techniques and methods used in language teaching. One of the ways for optimization of lessons in fo- reign languages is aimed at integration of cognitive linguistics and its achievements into the struc-ture of such classes. The linguocognitive basis fits well into the communicative approach to teach-ing languages and allows for increased efficiency of education through using the principles and methods of cognitive science, which provides a means of explanation for a number of linguistic phenomena, including grammatical, the explanation of which is difficult within the traditional ap-proach to teaching. Certain aspects of English grammar, that are difficult to be taught, are being considered and the efficiency of methods of cognitive linguistics in their teaching is proven. We demonstrate the importance of considering cognitive metaphor as a mechanism that is crucial for teaching English prepositions and modal verbs. A number of practical researches, that have proven the high potential of classes, structured around linguocognitive basis, is provided. We also prove the possibility of integration of the methods of cognitive linguistics and the methods, developed within the traditional approach to language teaching. In conclusion we provide the arguments for the efficiency of teaching English grammar on linguocognitive basis.

scholarly journals The Future of International Law is Cognitive—International Law, Cognitive Sociology and Cognitive Pragmatics

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Pirker ◽  
Jennifer Smolka
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
International Law ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cognitive Approaches

AbstractScholars today discuss international law from various methodological angles. This Article aims to add perspectives from cognitive science, namely cognitive sociology and cognitive linguistics, or, to be more precise, cognitive pragmatics. It briefly elaborates on these fields’ respective approaches, benefits, and limits. To clearly delineate the usefulness of the methodologies, this Article separately applies both approaches to the same example of a process of interpretation in international law. This Article concludes that the two cognitive approaches can help lawyers better understand and implement international law. This not only provides a description of the process of interpretation, but will hopefully enable a better practice of international law.

COGNITIVE SCIENCES IN CHINA: THE BASIC TENDENCIES OF DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Ju. Yunsheng
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Studies

Currently, cognitive studies of language in China are very popular. There are different views on the theoretical aspects of this direction. The article discusses the current level of cognitive science in China, as well as the main trends in its development in relation to the study of the Chinese language. Some recommendations of Chinese scientists concerning the study of complex paradigms of cognitive science, especially in cognitive linguistics, cognitive terminology, cognitive lexicography, are offered in our article.

Introspection and cognitive linguistics

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond W. Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Cognitive linguists typically conduct their scholarship by relying upon their own intuitions about systematic patterns of language and what these may imply about the structure of human thought. But are linguists’ introspections reliable sources of evidence? Much work in contemporary cognitive science suggests that people’s introspections about their beliefs, feelings, and the reasons for their actions are quite inaccurate. Even trained experts often fail to recognize the real reasons for their beliefs and actions. The simple fact is that our ability to introspect upon many cognitive processes is extremely limited. This article discusses the implications of this empirical evidence for cognitive linguistic research and theory. I suggest several ways, nonetheless, by which cognitive linguists can better contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship by more systematically exploring the nature and reasons for their introspections on language and thought.

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