Cognitive linguistics
can offer an account not only of linguistic structure but also of a wide
variety of social and cultural phenomena. The comprehensive account presented
in this paper is crucially based and dependent on cognitive capacities that
human understanders and producers of language possess quite independently of
their ability to use language. By discussing the cognitive processes and the
various linguistic, social and cultural issues they help us describe and
explain, the author demonstrates that cognitive linguistics is far more than a
theory of language; one can think of it as a theory of
"meaning-making" in general in its innumerable linguistic, social and
cultural facets
