Cognitive Linguistics

“The claim that our bodies ground our conceptual and linguistic systems”

• The brain-environment hypothesis

• The embodiment hypothesis

• Universal grammar

Who coined the concept of conceptual metaphors?

• Shakespeare

• Chomsky

• Lakoff & Johnson

What is a conceptual metaphor?

• metaphors that include concepts in them

• a fundamental cognitive process that shapes how we think and understand the world

• a rhetorical figure to make language beautiful

The perspective on grammar of Cognitive Linguistics is...

• focused on syntactic rules

• introspective

• usage-based

Comprehension is related to ...

• building mental models of the text representation

• discriminating true from false information

• being able to decode words effectively

The phrase 'I think this gesture will bring us back together' is an expression from the conceptual metaphor...

• LOVE IS A JOURNEY

• TIME IS MONEY

• ARGUMENT IS WAR

What is the 'cognitive commitment' of Cognitive Linguistics?

• View that principles of linguistic structure should reflect what is known about human cognition from other disciplines

• View that cognition comes first, then the social

• View that every instance of communication is processed by the human brain

Who is a representative of Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis?

• Ted Sanders

• Christopher Hart

• Ronald Langacker

Where can we 'localize' coherence?

• In the reader's mind

• In the connectors

• In the purpose of the author