- Ronald Langacker
Ronald W. Langacker (born
December 27 ,1942 ) is an American linguist andprofessor emeritus at theUniversity of California, San Diego . He is best known as one of the founders of thecognitive linguistics movement and the creator of Cognitive Grammar.Langacker received his Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966. From 1966 until 2003, he was professor of linguistics at theUniversity of California, San Diego . From 1997 until 1999 he also served as president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association.Langacker develops the central ideas of Cognitive Grammar in his seminal, two-volume "Foundations of Cognitive Grammar", which became a major departure point for the emerging field of Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Grammar treats human languages as consisting solely of semantic units, phonological units, and symbolic units (conventional pairings of phonological and semantic units). Like
Construction Grammar , and unlike many mainstream linguistic theories, Cognitive Grammar extends the notion of symbolic units to the grammar of languages. Langacker further assumes that linguistic structures are motivated by general cognitive processes. In formulating his theory, he makes extensive use of principles ofgestalt psychology and draws analogies between linguistic structure and aspects of visual perception.Partial bibliography
*"Foundations of Cognitive Grammar", Volume I, Theoretical Prerequisites. Ronald W. Langacker.
Stanford, California :Stanford University Press , 1987. ISBN 0-8047-1261-1.
*"Concept, Image, and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar". Ronald W. Langacker.Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. ISBN 3-11-012863-2, ISBN 0-89925-820-4.
*"Foundations of Cognitive Grammar", Volume II, Descriptive Application. Ronald W. Langacker.Stanford, California :Stanford University Press , 1991. ISBN 0-8047-1909-8.
*"Grammar and Conceptualization". Ronald W. Langacker.Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. ISBN 3-11-016603-8.
*"Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction". Ronald W. Langacker. New York:Oxford University Press , 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-533196-7.External links
* [http://ling.ucsd.edu/~rwl/ Ronald Langacker's UCSD faculty page]
* [http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org International Cognitive Linguistics Association]Persondata
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DATE OF BIRTH=December 27 ,1942
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