About this Cambridge Elements series
Cognitive linguistics is
an approach to language study that
aims to explore and understand the interactions between language,
cognition, and their intersections. An important underlying principle of
this approach is that many, if not all, linguistic phenomena can be explained
via general cognitive principles.
Grounded in the
cognitive sciences, cognitive linguistics has been informed by and has also
contributed to its neighbouring disciplines of psychology and philosophy. In
more recent years, cognitive linguistics has begun to harness research from an
expanding range of subject areas and theoretical backgrounds, and its
methodological innovations have provided new tools to many branches of linguistic
enquiry.
Cambridge
Elements in Cognitive Linguistics is
a series comprised of high-quality, updatable, and rigorous yet accessible
works written by experts in the field. The aim of the series is to
extend the theoretical and methodological boundaries of cognitive linguistics. To
do this, it will advance and develop established areas of research in the
discipline, as well as address areas where cognitive linguistics has not
traditionally been explored and areas where it has yet to become well-established.
Essentially, this series aims to address the question:
how can cognitive linguistics better serve its sub-disciplines, as well as the
discipline as a whole?
