Critical Cognitive Linguistics: An Analytical Perspective from Language Comprehension and Reception: Revisiting the Theoretical Construction of Critical Cognitive Linguistics
Abstract：Abstract：This article attempts to propose an emerging and new analytic perspective of Critical Cognitive Linguistics (CCL): A perspective from language comprehension and reception. Most of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), including CCL, are carried out from the perspective of language production, particularly investigating how discourse producers construct the discourses and their activated cognitive and rhetoric effects, neglecting, to some extent, the responses from discourse consumers. The perspective of language comprehension and reception can remedy this drawback. We propose and elaborate on how to identify the mental representations and complex cognitive processes, specifically making four “identifications”: cognitive orientation, cognitive depth and cognitive constructiveness. At the same time we explain the elicited data, specifically deciphering the ethos of speakers and writers, logos of the texts and the evoked pathos from listeners and readers in language comprehension and reception. This analytic perspective can provide the future CCL an alternative path of research. Key words: Critical Cognitive Linguistics; language comprehension; language reception; mental representation; cognitive processes
