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“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Yanying Lu
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 10] 2019
► pp. 153–164

Chapter 8
From perceptual to socio-cultural cognition

The final chapter summarises the integration of cognitive linguistic and sociolinguistic analytical methods as an approach that can pinpoint the conceptual patterns of the self in Chinese. This socio-cognitive discourse approach addresses the conceptualisation of the self and its designated cognitive patterns in Chinese. It is argued that these conceptual patterns form the basis for the manifestation of the self in socio-discursive acts.
Keywords: the self, socio-cultural cognition, positioning, cultural imagination
Article outline
  • 8.1The self in language and culture
    • 8.1.1The self in language
    • 8.1.2The cultural self
  • 8.2Cognition of the self in discourse
    • 8.2.1The representational principle
    • 8.2.2The intersubjective principle
    • 8.2.3The emergent principle
  • 8.3Chinese self in diaspora discourse
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