I'm sorry to bump into this thread (called "duologue" by Yorick Wilks), but there's quite a lot of statements that don't seem to be on the right track... and I could not resist the temptation.
On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Wolfgang Teubert wrote:
> Cognitive linguistics, and particularly its illegitimate offspring,
> NLP, however, seemed ideal to uphold the claim to scientificity.
> Indeed the starting point of the cognitive sciences was the
> computational theory of the mind.
First, nothing (or very little) in NLP seems to point to Cognitive Linguistics. Rather, the link is with a choice of approaches to language stemming from the generative tradition, mostly LFG and HPSG.
Second, the fact that the approach known as Cognitive Linguistics is termed "cognitive" does not make it any more cognitive or scientific than other, even more successful, approaches to language. In fact, to date, the most developed theory of the computational processes that take place "in the mind" is the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters / Minimalist Program, like it or not.
My two cents.
Cheers,
E.
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