Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language

Author: Cheng Qilong
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: Neurocognitive linguistics is one of the important linguistic schools that emerged in the United States in the 1960s, 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 simple theoretical arguments are thought-provoking. Neurocognitive linguistics reveals that linguistics is indeed an interdisciplinary field, involving information science, neurophysiology, connectionist theory in cognitive science, semiotics, and more. This theory is both a linguistic theory and, at the same time, can be considered 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 language relationship systems.