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Three philosophical assumptions Language is not an autonomous cognitive faculty Grammar is conceptualization Knowledge of language emerges from language use * Excerption concerning with the relation between language and cognition In contrast to most previous linguistic paradigms, which saw meaning either as less relevant or else as an autonomous linguistic module, CL approaches language as an integrated part of human cognition which operates in interaction with and on the basis of the same principle as other cognitive faculties. CL is therefore defined as a linguistic theory which analyzes language in its relation to other cognitive domains and faculties such as bodily and mental experiences, image-schemas, perception, attention, memory, viewing frames, categorization, abstract thought, emotion, reasoning, inferencing,etc…. They are all one in cognition. (Dirven 2005:17-18) * CL in broad and narrow sense CL in broad sense Linguistic competence is a special cognitive competence. In essence, it is different from other cognitive competence of human being’s CL in narrow sense Linguistic competence is no different from people’s other cognitive competence * The Philosophical foundation for Cognitive Linguistics: experiential realism Thought is embodied Thought is imaginative Thought has gestalt properties and is thus not atomistic Thought has an ecological structure * Four founding fathers 姓名 出生年及国籍 获得博士学位的时间及大学 任教的大学 理论贡献领域 Ronald Langacker 1942年美国 1966年伊利诺斯大学 加州大学圣迭戈分校 认知语法 Leonard Talmy 1942年美国 1972年加州大学伯克利分校 纽约州立大学布法罗分校 认知语义学 George Lakoff 1942年美国 1966年印第安纳大学 加州大学伯克利分校 认知语义学（概念隐喻） René Dirven 1932年比利时 1971年比利时鲁汶大学 1972年到1985年特里尔大学；1985年至今，德国杜伊斯堡大学 应用语言学，社会语言学 * Three main approaches in Cognitive Linguistics Based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it. Three main approaches in Cognitive Linguistics the experiential view The prominence view The attentional view * The Main Contents (1)Prototypes and Categories (2)Levels of Categori