The Philosophy of Mind and the Innovation of Cognitive Linguistics

Cognitive science has experienced a period of development of 30 years or more, and now it faces a stage of great rapid changes and re-organization.One of its progressive paths is to develop through a more general philosophical abstraction into the philosophy of mind, which becomes the first philosophy in the 21 century while the first philosophy in the 20 century was that of language.The philosophy of mind does not take as its direct object of study the language activity, which now turns into only the reflection of mental activities in the scope of its study;it takes mental activities as its direct object of study.Cognitive linguidtics is one of its supporting branches of cognitive science, which has the potential to make a contribution to a theory of language that goes beyond cognition, as well as to a theory of cognition that goes beyond language.On the understanding that it is first and foremost a science of language, cognitive linguistics should, following the great changes and re-organization of the paradigms of cognitive science, consciously take the responsibility of making a contribution to a theory of cognition that goes beyond language.This might be a possible trend of the new development of cognitive linguistics, as well as one of its growing point of the innovation of its theory.