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Cognitive linguistics holds that the core view of meaning lies in categorization.

Principles of cognitive linguistics:

1. The meaning of cognitive linguistics is equivalent to conceptualization, that is, various structures or processes of psychological experience, rather than truth conditions in the possible world: the meaning of an expression is the concept activated in the brain of the speaker or listener.

2. Categories are not defined by standard attribute models, nor by necessary and sufficient features. Category is organized around typicality, similarity of family members and subjective relationship among members in category.

3. Grammatical judgment involves categorization. The grammaticality or acceptability of discourse is not binary, that is, it is either acceptable or unacceptable, but gradual.

Cognitive linguistics:

1, cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistics, which was born on the theoretical background of the second generation of cognitive science and empirical philosophy, and opposed the transformation of generative grammar in mainstream linguistics, and began to take shape from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

2. Cognitive linguistics involves artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology, system theory and other disciplines. It points out that the creation, learning and application of language must basically be explained by human cognition, because cognitive ability is the basis of human knowledge.

3. Cognitive linguistics is not a single language theory, but a research paradigm, which is a general term for many cognitive language theories. It is characterized by taking people's daily experience as the basis of language use and emphasizing the inseparable relationship between language and general cognitive ability.