Review of Wen & Taylor (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics.

Wen, Xu Taylor, John R. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics London/New York Routledge 2021 978-1-138-49071-0 xx + 772 £ 152 As a comparatively new but rapidly growing language study discipline, cognitive linguistics originated from not only the developments of cognitive science, psychology and other related disciplines between the 1960s and 1970s but also the criticism of Chomskyan linguistics. Completely different from Chomskyan linguistics which emphasizes the formalistic syntactic analysis and assumes language is independent of other cognition forms, cognitive linguistics holds the conception that language is learned and processed substantially in the same way as other types of information about the world, and the identical cognitive processes are involved in language as they are involved in other forms of thinking. Cognitive sociolinguistics explores the compatibilities between cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics in their approaches and theoretical frameworks, mainly committed to the sociolinguistic variations, lexical variations and language policies, etc. from the perspective of cognitive linguistics ([11]; [6]; [13]; [12]; [9]; [4]). Yuzhi Shi proposes that cognitive linguistics could explain cross-linguistic regularity and that linguistic typology could prove certain theoretical hypotheses of cognitive linguistics. [Extracted from the article]