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| | Fauconnier: Meaning, Language, Cognition |
 | | The uniformity is across linguistic levels, the word, the sentence, the sentence and its context, the whole discourse, and ultimately general reasoning. |
 | | Cognitive linguists have been especially attentive to this dimension of the new research, and they have argued persuasively for the cognitive generality of the mappings, correspondences, bindings, integration, perspectival organization, windows of attention, pragmatic functions, framing, force dynamics, prototype structures, and dynamic simulations that underlie the construction of meaning as reflected by language use. |
 | | As a result, linguistics is no longer a self- contained account of the internal properties of languages; it is in its own right a powerful means of revealing and explaining general aspects of human cognition. |
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