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Author(s) -
Förster Heinz
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
the journal of popular culture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1540-5931
pISSN - 0022-3840
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1984.1803_49.x
Subject(s) - german , citation , library science , democracy , philosophy , computer science , political science , law , linguistics , politics
Welcome to the first issue of the cognitive linguistic journal Language, Mind, Culture and Society (LaMiCuS). The journal’s title ref lects two key features of cognitive linguistics: an assumption that language is not autonomous, but is instead integrated with broader abilities organizing human cognition, such as categorization, conceptualization, and information processing — and the one that language is intertwined with culture and society. In this way, the title presupposes a broad area of linguistic research informed by multiple approaches that need not be fully compatible with one another, even though they are founded on a number of shared assumptions. As described by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens,