Cognitive Linguistics and Communication

Abstract

Professionals dealing with communication and its disorders should acquaint themselves with the concepts and methods of cognitive linguistics because it permits viewing language as a multimodal communication system. This brief note is based on my own research into iconicity in language. It introduces the idea of nonarbitrary nature of language that involves less researched lexical items such as ideophones and reduplicated words. New research topics relevant for the Indian context using cognitive linguistic framework are mentioned.