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Article: Sign-oriented vs. form-oriented linguistics and word-formation. (1).
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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1.1. Simplifying a great deal and abstracting from the details, it can be argued that the history of linguistics in this century until fairly recently was basically dominated by two major currents, which could be characterised by the labels that also figure in the title of this paper, i.e. "sign-oriented" vs. "form-oriented". To these a third trend must now be added, which has emerged (or, maybe more correctly, re-emerged) in the last two decades, viz. "concept-oriented linguistics". This seems to be the root of so-called "cognitive linguistics", a direction that focuses on the relationship between prelinguistic ("cognitive") categorisation and its linguistic ...