نظرية الأفضية الذهنية

Abstract EN

By now, Linguistic studies is focused on approaching the brain and its functioning mechanisms, though to evolve upon cognitive linguistics that withholds both cognitive and spiritual sides, or It may save what remains with some regret and rejection caused by the ambiguity starting from the term to its connotations and scientific content.

Cognitive linguistics has also adopted contemporary conceptual propositions in the form of theories and mechanisms that approach linguistic structures from the standpoint of the relationship of language to the brain, such as George Lykoff G.

Lakoff, Ray Jakindoff.

Jakendoff, Charles Flemore, Ch.

Fillmore and G.

Fauconier.

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The theory of mental spaces is one of the cognitive linguistics theories set by the researcher Gilles Fauconier, it represents an advanced cognitive pragmatic method that manages to deliberate many pragmatics concepts through applying a cognitive approach.

Then, what are the proposals of this theory? How can this theory be invested in understanding and interpreting the meaning of linguistic structures? Key words: Cognitive linguistics, mental space theory, deliberative function, referral function, mental spaces