(Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Linguistics is generally viewed as one of the main components of cognitive science. This presumably means that linguistics both is fed by and feeds cognitive science as a broader discipline. True, cognitive linguists have a fair record of taking the data provided by cognitive psychology into serious account; cf., for example, the impact of Rosch and other psychologists on the work of Lakoff (e.g. 1987), or the psychologically minded linguistic work, such as Tomlin 1994 or Dickinson & Givón 1997. On the other hand, the impact of linguistics on cognitive science has been quite modest. A typical textbook in cognitive psychology or cognitive science contains a chapter on language in which the only linguistic framework covered with any degree of detail is that of generative grammar. I believe that this situation is not tolerable and that cognitive linguists should try to explain their points to psychologists more effectively. After all, language is the main natural phenomenon that consistently and abundantly demonstrates overt traces of cognitive processing, and it cannot be ignored by the general enterprise of cognitive science