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„Well, cognitive linguistics is a field of linguistics where one of the core tendencies is that language is an essential part of cognition and that there’s no … between language and cognition and this kind of departs from what one of the main schools of linguistics have generative linguistics that sort of sees language as being a formal system and that it’s somewhat isolated from other cognitive systems. But, you know but … just this general commitment to language as being part of the cognitive system. There are a couple of other tenets that kind of set generative linguistics apart. And one thing is the idea that your knowledge of language is based on the usage of language. So it’s called this usage-based approach to language. And that your knowledge of language sort of has to do with abstractions from individualised discourse events. So, you know where in some communicative situation and there are some sounds that are made or in the case of sign language there are some movements that a speaker makes and some meaning is attributed to it. And that from a variety of different usage examples you draw some abstractions and that’s where your knowledge comes from. So, the other big thing is our viewing grammar as pairings between form and meaning so there’s the phonological form of the speech or the sign and then there’s the meaning that’s conveyed. And it’s these pairings that you’re learning and not some abstract rule. And then the last thing is the idea of meaning as being located in conceptual structure that the way to establish a meaning is to activate a concept. So that goes back to the original … of cognition being …”