Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics -- The Neurocognitive Basis of Language

Author: Cheng Qilong (Editor)
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Features: Neurocognitive linguistics is one of the important linguistic schools that emerged in the 1960s in the United States, with Sydney Lamb as its founder, a renowned linguist. This theory emphasizes the relationship between linguistics and other disciplines, stressing that linguistic theories are not contradictory to neurobiological facts. Its pragmatic theoretical arguments are thought-provoking. Neurocognitive linguistics reveals that linguistics is indeed an interdisciplinary field, involving information science, neurophysiology, connectionist theories in cognitive science, semiotics, and more. The theory is both a linguistic theory and, one could say, a neurophysiological theory, a cognitive theory, and a semiotic theory. It has distinctive applications in computer engineering and cognitive science. This book strives to reflect the multifaceted nature of the theory and, using Chinese as an example, introduces the main strategies for analyzing, synthesizing, and operationally testing hierarchical linguistic relationship systems.