Vienna, Austria

General Linguistics: Grammar Theory and Cognitive Linguistics

Allgemeine Linguistik: Grammatiktheorie und kognitive Sprachwissenschaft

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⇑General Linguistics: Grammar Theory and Cognitive Linguistics at University of Vienna

Language: German Studies in German

Subject area: humanities

Qualification: MA

Master of Arts, MA
4 Semester
120 ECTS

University website: www.univie.ac.at

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Cognitive Linguistics

Cognitive linguistics (CL) is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from both psychology and linguistics. It describes how language interacts with cognition, how language forms our thoughts, and the evolution of language parallel with the change in the common mindset across time.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the 6th century BC Indian grammarian Pāṇini, who wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his Aṣṭādhyāyī.

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Theory

A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking. Depending on the context, the results might, for example, include generalized explanations of how nature works. The word has its roots in ancient Greek, but in modern use it has taken on several related meanings.

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Theory

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought.” The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves, or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.

Walter Pater (1873), The Renaissance, Conclusion

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Linguistics

O! good my lord, no Latin;
I'm not such a truant since my coming,
As not to know the language I have liv'd in.

William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 1, line 42.

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Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.

William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act IV, scene 7, line 62.

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