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In Linguistics and Cognitive Science , cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the school of linguistics that views the important essence of language as innately based in Evolution arily-developed and Speciated faculties, and seeks explanations that advance or fit well into the current understandings of the human Mind . The guiding principle behind this area of linguistics is that language ''creation, learning, and usage'' must be explained by reference to human Cognition in general —the basic underlying mental processes that apply not only to language, but to all other areas of human Intelligence . It assumes that language is both Situated in a specific Bioregion and that it is Embodied . This can be considered a more developed form of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis , in that not only are language and cognition mutually influential, but also embodied experience and environmental factors of the bioregion. AREAS OF STUDY Cognitive linguistics is divided into two main areas of study, which are currently being reunified, as linguists have grown to understand their mutual interdependence:
Aspects of cognition that are of interest to cognitive linguists include:
Related work that interfaces with many of the above themes:
Cognitive linguistics, more than generative linguistics, seek to mesh together these findings into a coherent whole. A further complication arises because the terminology of cognitive linguistics is not entirely stable, both because it is a relatively new field and because it interfaces with a number of other disciplines. Insights and developments from cognitive linguistics are becoming accepted ways of analysing literary texts, too. Cognitive Poetics , as it has become known, has become an important part of modern stylistics. The best summary of the discipline as it is currently stands is Peter Stockwell's ''Cognitive Poetics''. Stockwell, Peter (2002). ''Cognitive poetics: An Introduction''. London and New York: Routledge. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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