creators_name: Kravchenko, A.V. editors_name: Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. editors_name: Turewicz, K. type: bookchapter datestamp: 2004-12-28 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:47 metadata_visibility: show title: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AS A METHODOLOGICAL PARADIGM ispublished: pub subjects: phil-lang subjects: ling-sem subjects: ling-prag full_text_status: public keywords: Cognition, language, computational metaphor, grammar and cognitive processing, semantics, pragmatics abstract: A general direction in which cognitive linguistics is heading at the turn of the century is outlined and a revised understanding of cognitive linguistics as a methodological paradigm is suggest. The goal of cognitive linguistics is defined as understanding what language is and what language does to ensure the predominance of homo sapiens as a biological species. 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