In 2020, Thora Tenbrink (University of Bangor) published a synthesis on Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CODA hereafter). She defines the book as “the result of twenty years of engagement with a seemingly simple idea: we use language to express our thoughts” (Preface, §1).
While this claim and the resulting research program might not seem new, as Tenbrink confesses herself, it remains that the question could receive much more attention from the many fields tackling the link between language, discourse and cognition, in each field separately and as a joint endeavor.
The crucial contribution of the book and of CODA is that it transforms its focal interest in the relation between “complex cognitive processes” (passim) and language into an opportunity to bring together different relevant disciplines to delimit a quite vast scientific common ground. Tenbrink succeeds in building upon a wide variety of approaches within the ...
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