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Cognitive Grammar as a Manifestation of the Pragmatic Turn in Linguistics
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The article investigates the position of pragmatics within the theory of Cognitive Grammar. The author’s aim is to verify the hypothesis that Ronald Langacker’s theory fits into the picture of post-Chomskyian linguistics, which began after the so-called pragmatic turn. To support this idea, different examples of the key role of pragmatics for the framework are provided, including the ones pertaining to the general assumptions of the theory (its usage-based nature) as well as the account of the meaning of individual linguistic units (the encyclopedic approach to meaning).
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ah.2016.7.33
Date of publication: 2017-06-30 00:00:00
Date of submission: 2017-02-13 14:18:51
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