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Cognitive Semantics Overview

Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement and holds that language is based on human cognition and conception of the world rather than a direct mapping to reality. It views grammar as reflecting cultural worldviews and language knowledge as acquired through context. Cognitive semantics also rejects separating linguistics into distinct categories and instead focuses on how meaning is constructed and knowledge represented based on general cognitive abilities rather than a specialized language module.

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Cognitive Semantics Overview

Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement and holds that language is based on human cognition and conception of the world rather than a direct mapping to reality. It views grammar as reflecting cultural worldviews and language knowledge as acquired through context. Cognitive semantics also rejects separating linguistics into distinct categories and instead focuses on how meaning is constructed and knowledge represented based on general cognitive abilities rather than a specialized language module.

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COGNITIVE

SEMANTICS

Prepared by:
Maricar Talosig
Angel Ann Masiddo
COGNITIVE SEMANTICS

Cognitive semantic is part of


cognitive linguistics movement.
 Cognitive semantics holds that
language is part of a more general
human cognitive ability, and you can
therefore only describe the world as
people conceive it. It is implicit that
there is some difference between this
conceptual world and the real world.
The main tenets of cognitive semantics
are:
 That grammar manifests a conception of
the world held in a culture
 That Knowledge of language is acquired
and contextual;
 That the ability to use language draws
upon general cognitive resources and not
a special language module.
 As part of the field of cognitive
linguistic, the cognitive semantics
approach rejects the traditional
separation of linguistic into
phonology ,morphology ,syntax,
pragmatics ,etc. instead ,it divides
semantics into meaning-construction
and knowledge representation.

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