Sociocognitive linguistics is the combination of the social cognitive theory and cognitive linguistics,which is also one of the new trends of cognitive linguistics.Over the past 40 years,cognitive linguistics has deeply probed into the relationships between conceptual representation and linguistic representation,but the probe of this kind has neglected the sociocognitive factor of verbal communication.Following the social turn of cognitive linguistics,recently we have advanced sociocognitive linguistics which stu-died how social cognition influences the structure,expression and interpretation of language.The paper explicates some issues of the social cognitive theory,and explores some of the major contents of sociocognitive linguistics at the interpersonal,intergroup and social practical levels.It is hoped that these explanations can contribute to a clearer understanding of the research scope of sociocognitive linguistics and promote its further development.
social cognitionembodied social cognitionsociocognitive linguisticscognitive linguistics