Manifestations of Cognitive Grammar in Language and Dialects for Ronald Langacker
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This article constitutes a highly significant scholarly translation for researchers and scholars interested in the study of language and dialects, as well as for those working in related interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science more broadly. The article seeks to shed light on one of the central branches of cognitive linguistics, which represents an integrated theoretical framework encompassing a range of cognitive concepts and principles whose foundations began to take shape in the early 1970s. This branch is known as Cognitive Grammar and is regarded as one of the fundamental pillars upon which modern cognitive linguistics has been built. The importance of this article lies in its presentation of an in-depth introduction to Cognitive Grammar for the Arabic reader, through an exposition of its core concepts, theoretical foundations, and its approach to language as a mental activity closely linked to perception and human experience. It should be noted that this article is an adapted translation of two sections—of which this text represents the first—taken from a chapter of Cognitive Grammar by the linguist Ronald Langacker, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. This work encapsulates the outcome of a research trajectory spanning more than thirty years, during which Langacker devoted his efforts to the development of this linguistic framework and the formulation of its theoretical foundations, making this translation a valuable scholarly addition to the Arabic library and to researchers in the fields of language and cognition
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