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The best collections about CL and second language acquisition are the Achard & Niemeier (2004) edited volume, Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition & Foreign Language Teaching and the Putz, Dirven & Niemeier (2001) two volume set Applied Cognitive Linguistics. Vol.1 deals with theory & acquisition. Vol.2 with language pedagogy.

Does Cognitive Linguistics live up to its name?

Bert Peeters

There can be no doubt that structural linguistics, which flourished half a century ago on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, lived up to its name: it was structural because it considered languages to be self-contained entities that had either to be shaped into a rigorous structure, or actually possessed a structure which was real and merely waiting to be discovered. There can be no doubt either that transformational grammar, which in its heydays pushed structuralism into quasi-total oblivion, lived up to its name: it was transformational because it posited several successive strata or structures in sentence generation which were linked by means of transformations of all sorts. On the contemporary scene, there can be no doubt that functional linguistics lives up to its name: it attaches a great deal of importance to the way in which languages function and to the functions of language. The question that will be raised in the next few pages is the following: does Cognitive Linguistics, as we know it today, live up to its name?

In T. Janssen and G. Redeker (Eds). Scope and Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics. The Hague: Mouton De Gruyter.

Gilles Fauconnier

I. MEANING, LANGUAGE, COGNITION

Linguists agree on one thing – that language is diabolically hard to study. They do not always agree, however, on the how’s, the why’s, and the what for’s: how one should go about studying it and how speakers manage to do what they do; why it is so hard and why exactly we bother to study it; what language is for, and what linguistics is for. A mainstream view that has been popular in the last thirty years (but not necessarily before that) offers the following answers.

Book review:From Perception to Meaning

Reviewed by Ludwig Johnson, independent scholar

As is generally acknowledged, the term image schema first appeared in Talmy (1983), Johnson (1987), and Lakoff (1987), and was used as a notion to account for the embodied origins of human language and cognition. In her introduction to the volume under review, Beate Hampe points out that image schemas were originally characterized as directly meaningful, pre-conceptual, highly schematic, continuous and analogous, and internally structured. In the past two decades, image schemas have proven to be a crucial and fundamental concept in cognitive linguistics. They are useful in explanations of various linguistic and non-linguistic issues, in the areas of lexical semantics and inference structure in particular. However, despite all this, different scholars entertain different views on how to understand and define image schemas, and there are still many fundamental questions awaiting adequate exploration. The major goal of this collection of papers is, instead of offering a unified account of image schema theory, to bring together some of the major ideas on image schemas in order to see how the divergent approaches contribute to a deeper understanding.

英汉基本颜色词“黑”、“白”的认知语义分析

作者：张祝祥 杜凤兰

摘要：本文在认知语言学的框架内，以原型理论、隐喻和转喻为理论基础，以英汉语言中基本颜色词“黑”、“白”为例，比较分析不同语言中基本颜色词的认知语义结构的共性和个性并简要总结其成因。(《外语与外语教学》2007 年第5 期)

构式语法的“构式”之辩

作者：刘国辉

摘要：近十年来，构式语法研究获得了迅猛的发展，成果颇丰。作为认知语言学研究的一种新理论范式，笔者认为有必要就其核心概念“构式”进行一个多维诠释，以便为这方面感兴趣的研究者提供一个基本的认知框架，同时希望更多汉语界的同行把该理论范式带入汉语研究中，因为汉语这方面的语料很丰富，相信会有更多具有创新新的研究成果出现。(《外语与外语教学》2007 年第8 期)

by Dick Hudson <dick@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>

25 July 2000

A few weeks ago I asked for suggestions for introductory reading on cognitive linguistics for undergraduates. The following is a copy of the annotated bibliography that I’ve been able to build up, largely with help from the following:

Guenter Radden, Gerhard van Huyssteen, Paul Peranteau (of John Benjamins publishers), Andrew McMichael, Joe Hilferty, Marjolijn Verspoor, Gary Palmer, Len Talmy, Sherman Wilcox, Sharon Hutchins.

Prepared by Vyv Evans

www.vyvevans.net

If you would like to find out more about various topics in cognitive linguistics, the　following listing provides suggestions for follow-up reading. I have restricted my　selection to published books (including both monographs, edited volumes and　volumes in press). The …

Journals

Cognitive Linguistics, the journal of the ICLA, subscription comes with ICLA Membership). Link to Mouton page for Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton, 1990-)
Pragmatics and Cognition (Benjamins, 1993-)
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins, 2003-)
Constructions (peer-reviewed e-journal, University of Düsseldorf, 2004-)
Cognitextes, Review of AFLiCo, the French Cognitive Linguistics Association, an ICLA affiliate organization (peer-reviewed e-journal, AFLiCO 2007-)

There are large number of institutions throughout the world that employ researchers who actively pursue Cognitive Linguistics research programs. Many of these institutions have degree programs in which students can study and participate in research on Cognitive Linguistics topics, at the graduate or undergraduate level. We are collecting links to such programs here. If your program is not listed, please send information to the Web Editor.

About Cognitive Linguistics-Historical Background

by Suzanne Kemmer

Cognitive Linguistics grew out of the work of a number of researchers active in the 1970s who were interested in the relation of language and mind, and who did not follow the prevailing tendency to explain linguistic patterns by means of appeals to structural properties internal to and specific to language. Rather than attempting to segregate syntax from the rest of language in a ’syntactic component’ governed by a set of principles and elements specific to that component, the line of research followed instead was to examine the relation of language structure to things outside language: cognitive principles and mechanisms not specific to language, including principles of human categorization; pragmatic and interactional principles; and function all principles in general, such as iconicity and economy.