Title: Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics in the Perspective of the Second Enlightenment and Embodied-Cognitive Philosophy

Abstract: Postmodernist philosophy, has undergone three major periods: humanism and criticism, deconstruction, and constructionism and embodied-cognitivity. Dr. Wang Zhihe regards the third period as the second Enlightenment, which offers a new way for the research of philosophical history. To our mind, postmodernism has appeared not only in literature, culture and philosophy, but also in linguistics. Systemic Functional and Cognitive Linguistics has broken away from the bondage of modernist mechanical theory, and has many features of organic linguistics, but lacks the conscious perspective of philosophical theory for the probe of the organic relationship between linguistics and philosophy. In contrast, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics (ECL for short), based on the second Enlightenment and Embodied-Cognitive Philosophy, has probed this organic relationship. Integrated with Marx-Leninist Dialectical Materialism and humanism, and many new ideas from Constructive Postmodernist Philosophy, ECL thus completely rids itself of mechanical linguistics. ECL obviously belongs to organic linguistics, which will provide a new direction for linguistic research and teaching all over the world.

Keywords: the fourth turn of west philosophy, the Second Enlightenment, Embodied-Cognitive Philosophy, organic linguistics, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics, Wang Zhihe

Author: Yin Wang, Professor, Sichuan International Studies University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2021.04.012