The categories, they do nothing!

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Heh, nope, you would be a tenured prof in a linguistics or psych department if you had. "Cognitive linguistics" itself is a problematic term because it usually means "the branch of psycholinguisticsWikipedia that became George LakoffWikipedia's personality cult" rather than the more obvious meaning of "the application of cognitive psychology to linguistics."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:57, 2 March 2012

I can see that the subtle differences there could cause confusion.

Scarlet A.pngsshole16:59, 2 March 2012

It's not really so subtle at all if you're familiar with the history of the fields, though. It's sort of like how "evolutionary psychology" often doesn't mean "psychology done from an evolutionary perspective," but "selfish gene + Cosmides and Tooby."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:09, 2 March 2012

The "subtle" was sarcastic. :P

Scarlet A.pnggnostic17:16, 2 March 2012

Sorry, forgot to turn my detector on this morning.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:20, 2 March 2012

I'll get a sign.

Scarlet A.pngmoral23:22, 2 March 2012