Cognitive Linguistics is a branch of linguistics that combines knowledge and research from cognitive science, psychology, neuropsychology, and linguistics, the theoretical and models of cognitive linguistics are purely psychological, in cognitive linguistic research aims to contribute to the general understanding of cognition and is seen as a path to the human mind. foundation of cognitive linguistics lies in Noam Chomsky's 1959 critical examination of B. F. Skinner's Speech Behavior. Chomsky considered linguistics as a branch of cognitive science in the 1970s but called his model transformational or generative grammar. However, the emergence of cognitive linguistics was linked to the work of a number of linguists who were interested in researching the relationship between language and mind and who deviated from the prevailing trend during the seventies of the last century in explaining linguistic patterns because that trend was satisfied with studying the structural characteristics of language. Therefore, cognitive linguists focused on the relationship between the structure of language and things outside of it, and their focus on that relationship was behind refuting the claim that the syntax component is separate from the other components of language and is governed by its own principles. Among the most influential works in this cognitive trend are the studies of Gilles Fauconnier, Ray Jakendoff, Charles Fillmore, George Lakoff, and Ronald Langacker. Each of them worked on developing his own approach to describing language by focusing on a specific device. Cognitive linguistics is not a closed theory. Rather, it is an open theory that gains its strength and coherence from its openness to many sciences, including: psychology, anthropology, computer science, educational sciences, and others. On that basis this paper tends to highlight on the concept of cognitive linguistic, its emergence and development, as well as the contributions of western linguists on the subject matter, the researcher used descriptive research design.
Ahmed Gharba (Wed,) studied this question.