that other scholars like Ronald W. Langacker (born 1942) and Leonard Talmy (born 1942) began to lay important foundations for Cognitive Linguistics. Since then, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into a flourishing school of thought.75 The basic principle behind Cognitive Linguistics is that linguistics is not just knowledge of a language but is itself a form of knowledge. Cognitive Linguistics sees language as a psychologically real phenomenon and takes the processing and storage of information
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