TY - JOUR N2 - Discussions of the disciplinary roots of second language (L2) composition studies contain no mention of cognitive linguistics, even though there are regular references to systemic functional linguistics, which is one of the cognitive-functional approaches to language of which cognitive linguistics is a central member (Nuyts 2007). In fact, systemic functional linguistics is recognized in composition studies as an infl uence in composition’s social turn (cf. Grabe and Kaplan 1996). However, composition researchers have apparently taken no interest in cognitive linguistics, a discipline which epitomizes the linguistic turn within linguistics. The linguistic turn became a slogan in the academic community in the 1970s, after Rorty (1967) used the phrase as the title of his anthology presenting the steps in what he called the philosophical revolution of the 20th century. The revolution meant the recognition that philosophical problems were in an important sense linguistic/conceptual: Knowledge depends on language, and philosophical concepts (e.g., truth, reality, etc.) are linguistic constructs that have a human socio-cultural (i.e., embodied and embedded) foundation rather than an ultimate transcendental foundation. As a result of this major development in 20th-century philosophy, the humanities and social sciences started to recognize the importance of language as a structuring agent of human consciousness. This fundamental idea affected the development of composition studies (bringing about its social turn) as well as contributed to the rise of cognitive linguistics in the 1980s. The paper looks into this affi nity between composition studies and cognitive linguistics, focusing on how the two fi elds are defi ned by their opposition to what is called Cartesian or fi rst-generation cognitivism. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108334/PDF-MASTER/Ling.%20Siles.%20vol%2037%2020-J.Zalewski.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108334 PY - 2016 EP - 377 A1 - Zalewski, Jan PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 37 DA - 2016 T1 - Composition studies and cognitive linguistics in the light of the linguistic turn: an unrecognized affinity SP - 365 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/108334 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -