Language is one of our most articulated means of expressing ideas and
thoughts. This introduction to language and linguistics as the science of
language will mainly look at language from the perspective of “expressing ideas
and thoughts”. This approach to the study of language is known as the cognitive
perspective. The cognitive perspective also holds that language is part of a
cognitive system which comprises perception, emotions, categorization,
abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities interact with
language and are influenced by language. Thus the study of language, in a sense,
becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts.
- Преподавател: Снежа Цонева-матюсън