Cognitive linguistics -The general principles and foundations

Abstract

Mental space is a central concept in the cognitive sciences mainly because of its impact and rolein meaning as it represents the world around us. It is a psychological cognitive thebased onGilles Fauconnier, which is involved in theories and methods that are concerned with explainingthe relationship between the significance of the linguistic constructs input and the mentalmechanisms output. Therefore, we decided that the topic of our research paper will be (Thetheory of mental spaces and challenges of interpreting the linguistics structures in the light ofthe cognitive theory). We aim through this intervention to demonstrate the role of the theory of mental spaces andits ability to interpret linguistic structures that are neither understood nor explained by purelyapplying formal linguistic analysis tools. Not to mention, language production is an open-endedlinguistic activity, in which many cognitive links are employed in the process of interpretationwith a goal to reach the intended connotation. Therefore, to what extent does the theory ofmental space contribute to the interpretation of linguistic structures? And what are thecognitive tools according to Fauconnier?