The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 59. 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. | 550 JAN NUytS than with basic research orientations or positions. Yet it is well known that for example taking a narrow or a broad perspective on some dimension of a research object . a perspective which either is or is not informed by the characteristics of other dimensions of the same research object may lead to very different and often hardly reconcilable conceptions of that So the matter is not without theoretical importance. Although arguably there is cognitive linguistic work on practically all major domains of language see parts IV and V of the present Handbook Cognitive Linguistics as defined above is predominantly oriented to semantic phenomena witness part I of the present Handbook which almost exclusively features purely semantic notions . What is more these semantic concerns are to a considerable extent though certainly not exclusively directed at phenomena such as categorization and schematization in conceptualizing the world cognitive models mental spaces type-token relations metaphorization imagery etc. . Cognitive Linguistics also pays serious attention to language-structural phenomena proper in Cognitive Grammar and in various Construction Grammars 14 but research in this area is not as well represented as the semantically oriented research. Moreover in its analysis of structure Cognitive Grammar much more so than the various Construction Grammars is strongly oriented to semantics in particular the semantic aspects relating to human categorization and is therefore as much a semantic model as it is a syntactic one. The level of discourse structure is practically absent in Cognitive Linguistics except for considerations such as those in Langacker 2001a but see Sanders and Spooren this volume chapter 35 for more references from a more broadly defined field of Cognitive Linguistics. Finally Cognitive Linguistics has a strongly synchronic orientation. Few exceptions apart including Sweetser 1990 there is hardly any consideration of .
