The place of Cognitive Linguistics on the French linguistics scene

As previously described here, part of my project involves the investigation of the lemma pouvoir in a native French subdata set. Analyses of quantitative results of such investigation will be carried out according to the Cognitive Linguistics (CL) framework. Carrying out a literature review including the polysemy of pouvoir in relation to the CL framework has, so far, proved a little tricky. This post provides a little bit of background on the place of CL in France and in French linguistics generally. At the Congres Mondial de Linguistique Francaise in Paris in July 2008, Dirk Geeraerst discussed the situation of CL in the context of French linguistics in a very informative paper entitled La Reception de la Linguistique Cognitive dans la Linguistique du Francais. Bonne lecture!