The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 10. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 60 ARIE VERHAGEN Figure . The construal configuration and its basic elements I refer to this process generally as understanding others as intentional or mental agents like the self . 7 Language use which is dependent on mutually shared knowledge of conventions is crucially dependent on recognizing others like oneself. So certainly with respect to linguistically coded conceptualizations Langacker s initial way of construing the construal relationship may be treated as a special case of a somewhat more complex configuration that incorporates the insight that language use comprises more than one subject of Consider figure . The ground of any linguistic usage event consists of two conceptualizers the communicator conceptualizer 1 in figure who takes responsibility for the utterance and the addressee conceptualizer 2 in figure with whom the communicator enters into a coordination relation and the knowledge that they mutually share including models of each other and of the discourse situation. On this view the ground is essentially common ground see Clark 1996 also Sinha 1999 for further psychological and philosophical considerations motivating this view of ground and Verhagen 2005 for linguistic considerations . The point of a linguistic utterance is generally speaking that the first conceptualizer invites the second to jointly attend to an object of conceptualization in some specific way and to update the common ground by doing so that is both conceptualizers are involved in coordinating cognition by means of language with one conceptualizer taking the initiative in each specific instance. This coordination relationship between the two conceptualizers is indicated by the lower horizontal line in figure and the relation of joint attention between the conceptualizers and the object of conceptualization by the vertical line. Figure represents a conceptual space which can be organized in different ways and which is reflected in .
