Cognitive linguistics references and representations

Abstract

This study seeks to explore the issue of language and its connection to the mind, a topic that has occupied a wide scope in contemporary linguistic studies. This connection explores the mental processes involved in comprehending and understanding reality, and clarifies how language and the world are interconnected in the human mind. Accordingly, mental linguistic phenomena can be addressed in isolation from analyses and categories that are limited to the mechanisms of language production by exploring mental and cognitive concepts. The study reveals two axes: the first is the historical reference to cognitive linguistics; it aims to clarify its history and demonstrate our ancient scholars' awareness of this relationship—language and cognition—to reveal the cognitive approach in their writings. The second is to reveal the representations from which cognitive scientists have drawn their attention to the relationship between language and the mind in studying linguistic levels from a cognitive perspective. I addressed the cognitive view of language processing from a mental perspective based on linguistic levels, which was the focus of interest of linguists who accepted that language be processed based on levels (phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic), so they employed the tools it provided in processing its topics.