Cognitive linguistics

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The book highlights the remarkable tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards both internal diversity and external interactions with key linguistic subdisciplines. It showcases the various strands of Cognitive Linguistics (CL) and emphasizes the cognitive unity among converging linguistic fields. Additionally, it offers a comprehensive overview of the links between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented aspects of language, appealing to scholars from diverse backgrounds. This breadth is expected to foster engaging discussions within and beyond the CL community. The text also explores interdisciplinary connections through the lens of CL's internal dynamics, as the field evolves into compatible frameworks that incorporate discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. The book addresses two main topics: (i) the connection between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; and (ii) the significance of metaphor and metonymy in inferential processes and discourse cohesion. Specific areas of focus include constructional meaning, language variation, discourse acts, the interplay between communication and cognition, the argumentative function of metaphor, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the importance of empirical research in CL. These elements contribute to the book's internal coherence while maintaining the distinct identity of each contribution.