The Evolution Law and Research Prospect of Cognitive Linguistics Development
This paper aims to explore the evolution law,research prospect and development trends of Cognitive Linguistics.In the past 50 years,Cognitive Linguistics has developed in depth and interacted with other disciplines,and has been improving itself.The evolution of cognitive linguistics shows the following five features:its research scope has been expanded from theoretical establishment to theoretical perfection;its research method has been improved from the introspection of cognitive mechanism to the verification of neural mechanism with experimental evidences;its research perspective has been updated from the study of language and cognition to the multi-dimensional study of language,cognition,society and pragmatics;its research object has been diversified from a single cognitive discipline to the intersection of cognitive linguistics and other disciplines;the research dimension has been enriched from theoretical introduction and English studies to theoretical application,indigenization studies and Chinese studies.Not only has the theory of Cognitive Linguistics continuously been innovated in connotation,but a series of new disciplines or areas of interest have emerged as Cognitive Linguistics is embracing a widening interdisciplinary scope,which shows development trends of recontexulization of theory,interdisciplinary integration and indigenization studies,providing the multi-dimensional and appliable prospect.