LANGACKER’S COGNITIVE GRAMMAR

Abstract

Cognitive linguistics (cognitology) is a branch of linguistics that has been intensively developing in science in recent decades. Being an interdisciplinary field of research, cognitology considers human cognition of the surrounding world in relation to natural language. Cognitive linguistics studies language as a cognitive mechanism that plays a role in the coding and transformation of language. The goal of the cognitive linguistics is to understand how the processes of perception, categorization, classification, and the comprehension of the World, how knowledge is accumulated.