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cognitive linguistics

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Cognitive linguistics emerges from the theoretical disputes of the 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing the need for a semantically based approach to grammar that incorporates general cognitive abilities. This contemporary perspective examines the interplay between language, mind, and sociophysical experiences, rejecting the view of semantics as merely truth-conditional. Instead, it frames meaning as a Gestalt phenomenon related to cognitive processes like conceptualization and categorization. Key theories in this domain include Mental Spaces Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory, which focus on the nonlinguistic mechanisms central to meaning construction.