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Volume 16:6 June 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Reintroducing Few Basic Ideas in Cognitive Linguistics:
An Elementary Computational Model

Indranil Sen, M.Sc., M.A.

Introducing Cognitive Linguistics and the Conceptual Domain

Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, rst introduced the notion of categorization. However, his context was little di erent. He introduced this very notion of categorization in the context of existence and pure knowledge/reason. Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced the notion of family resemblance, which, we will see later that, is nothing but explicitly written form of a category. Anyway, in various areas apart from Linguistics the idea of the categorization was slowly being introduced and discussed. Finally it got its structured and rigorous shape in a discipline called Cognitive Linguistics during 80s and 90s. The very way we comprehend our surrounding world is quiet an enigmatic one. How do we experience our existing world? How we give things their names? Cognitive Linguists tried to provide the answer to these age-old questions in a new perspective. They claimed that the capacity of categorization of human brain is innate. We experience our surrounding world, being unaware of this very truth that simultaneously our brain continue to make categories out of hundreds of things. We simply select things, compare or discard them, include or exclude them somewhere in the furthest most corner of our brain and we do all of these unknowingly, atleast not consciously. The process we are engaged in is actually to know/identify/understand/recognize one thing in terms of another. The technical term of this process is called categorization.

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Indranil Sen, M.Sc.,
Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh
India
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