Magyar Nyelvőr

Bańczerowski, Janusz: Principles of cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics represents the postmodern paradigm in science and proposes a new type of scientific research. The paper presents the main principles and methods of cognitive linguistics applied in the description of language, its grammar and meaning. The author considers the following basic issues: (1) The role of metaphors in linguistic communication; (2) Prototype theory; (3) Problems of reconstruction of a linguistic world view; (4) Some reflexions concerning knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.