Research Interests In Cognitive Linguistics

Research Interests

The principal focus of my research interests is Cognitive Linguistics, the empirical study of the mind, the relationship between language and cognition as well as the merger of language, culture and the human mind in a broader perspective from the analysis of immediate motivation up to the reproduction of subjective experience.

The objective of my research study is to identify the key criteria that affect the cognitive interpretation and to do research on the degree of original thinking within cultural analysis. I will apply the interrelations between language and cognition as key players in transforming the theoretical approach into practical accomplishment and their prominence of any information-processing activities

The recent emphasis on cognitive aspects in cognitive linguistic research needs to be complemented by in-depth analyses of the real-world language of idiomatic expressions, which provide and guide access to the conceptual domains. Accordingly, to make certain the way in which abstract terms are conceptualized in the human mind is a demanding task, which has been undertaken by many philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists especially. Abstract structures are meaningful only indirectly, and can be understood due to their systematic relationship to directly meaningful structures.

One of the basic assumptions in Cognitive Linguistics is the claim that we define and conceptualize the notions in the world around us on the basis of different modes of human perception, emotional experience as well as cultural patterns. These notions are mostly abstract in nature and what help us make a correlation between our experience and the physical world in which we live are abstract ideas and cognitive mechanisms that are realized in

Thus, context makes it possible to discard the literal interpretation of the utterance since the contextual information provided makes the student look for coherence within the text and arrive at the figurative sense.

Consequently, learning of fixed expressions should be encouraged at very early stages of second language learning, as it seems that before learners of a second language are acquainted with the lexical and syntactic system of a language, they try to acquire almost any chunk of language in order to be able to communicate in that particular language. As long as learners are not aware of the language system, they tend not to worry too much about making mistakes, as is the case in later stages of language learning and acquisition.

According to Carter (1988), the problem is that fixed expressions are not usually taught, although they are essential for the learning progress. The reason is that fixed expressions, or cultural connotations are considered by many teachers of foreign languages to be the most difficult aspect of vocabulary for the students to