Introduction and criticism of the book Cognitive Grammar: Theoretical Foundations and Application in Persian

Document Type : Criticism

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Linguistics, Humanities Faculty. Bu-Ali Sina University. Hamedan

Abstract

Cognitive Grammar is the first linguistic theory which deals specifically with grammar and describes the structure of language as a product of cognition and social interactions. In Cognitive Grammar, the fundamental idea is that grammar is meaningful and could only be described in relation to its communicative role; therefore, this grammar is a part of functionalism tradition. The gap of writing a work in order to introduce this theory in Persian thoroughly and the most important of all, the analysis of Persian constructions according to this framework in order to understand this theory better was felt, until the book Cognitive Grammar: Theoretical Foundations and Application in Persian was published in the winter of 2019 by Sahar Bahrami Khorshid (PhD) and Samt Press . In this paper, we have introduced and criticized this work.

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