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Date Posted: 18:30:31 05/02/07 Wed
Author: Aline Lucian
Subject: Task two

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS
FACULDADE DE LETRAS
PRODUÇÃO DE TEXTOS - 2007
ADRIANA TENUTA
ALINE LUCIAN COSTA


The Cognitive Grammar

Cognitive grammar is a theory of grammar which treats human languages as consisting only of semantic units, phonological units, and symbolic units (conventional pairings of phonological and semantic units).The cognitive grammar affirms that language is part of cognition and that linguistic investigation contributes to understanding the human mind.

In addition, the cognitive grammar fully recognizes the basis of language in social interaction and insists that even its interactive aspect is dependent on conceptualization. It emphasizes the semiological function of allowing conceptualizations to be symbolized by means of sounds and gestures, as well as a multifaceted interactive function involving communication, manipulation, expressiveness, and social communion.

If compared to formal approaches in which limits between language and psychological phenomena are imposed, cognitive linguistics finds more basic systems and abilities such as perception, memory, categorization, impossible to be separated from itself. Then, concerning particularly the cognitive grammar, those abilities that are not exclusive to language are invoked and show that, even though these general abilities account for the acquisition and the universal properties of language, some other aspects are substantially innate but still reside in cognitive phenomena.
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References
LANGACKER, Ronald. Viewing and experimental reporting in cognitive grammar. In Augusto S. Silva (Org.) Linguagem e cognição. Braga: Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga. 2001. Trad. Aparecida de Araújo Oliveira. Em preparação

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