In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker’s model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisa...

How can grammar be viewed as a functional part of a cognitive system) Given a neural basis for the processing control paradigm of language performance, what roles does 'Sgrammar" play? Is there evidence to suggest that grammatical processing can be independent from other aspects of language processing? This paper wi l l focus on these issues and suggest answers within the context of one computa...

Universal Grammar (UG) theory has been one of the most important research topics in linguistics since introduced five decades ago. UG specifies the restricted set of languages learnable by human brain, and thus, many researchers believe in its biological roots. Numerous empirical studies of neurobiological and cognitive functions of the human brain, and of many natural languages, have been cond...

In this review we re-evaluate the recursion-only hypothesis, advocated by Fitch, Hauser and Chomsky (Hauser, Chomsky & Fitch, 2002; Fitch, Hauser & Chomsky, 2005). According to the recursion-only hypothesis, the property that distinguishes human language from animal communication systems is recursion, which refers to the potentially infinite embedding of one linguistic representation within ano...

This paper concerns grammatical phenomena sensitive to certain classes of nominal forms, i.e. those that encode different kinds of referential properties of the nominal. We propose a grammar component for defining and picking out such semantic classes of nominal forms within typed feature structure formalisms such as the one used in HPSG, thus aiming at standardizing the representation of such ...

The term “explanation” has been widely investigated in different disciplines such as cognitive science, knowledgebased systems, linguistics, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and teaching. All these disciplines consider certain aspects of the term and make clear that there is not only one such concept but a variety of concepts. This has as a consequence that there was no common ag...

Halliday and Matthiessen’s Construing Experience connection between language and its uses in society. through Meaning (hereafter CETM) is an attempt to Halliday, as the originator of the systemic-functional describe the organisation of English semantics. More tradition in the early 1960s, and Matthiessen are precisely, it is an attempt to set out the abstract currently two (probably the two) ce...

A formal sentence processing system is proposed which simulates different eventrelated potential (ERP) elicitation between sentences with and without unambiguous case marking. The electroencephalographical data are based on German subordinate clauses and Japanese sentences. As a formal framework we adopt Dynamic Syntax (Kempson et al. 2001), which enables incremental update of information by un...

Abstract Nuclear stress (or sentence stress) as a prosodic feature marks information flow in spoken English, and has received some treatment the linguistics literature, most notably pragmatics, but less so newer phonological paradigms. Current theories might shed light on this feature, such Optimality Theory (OT) cognitive grammar (CG). This paper compares potential insights likely predictions ...