{"id":2,"date":"2019-10-31T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:22:18","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian and Other Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2023\/08\/20230814_132015-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CLEAR pursues empirical research in the framework of cognitive linguistics with the aim of building electronic resources that support research-based student-centered language pedagogy. Find our research on the <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/projects\/\">Projects<\/a> page, and our electronic resources on the <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/products\/\">Products<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CLEAR group brings linguistics into the information age, with special emphasis on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cognitive Linguistics<\/strong> (explanation of language phenomena in terms of general cognitive strategies)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Empirical Approaches<\/strong> (language data and its statistical analysis)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Russian<\/strong> (the northern language that is also a world language).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The linguistic expertise of the group also includes Norwegian, North S\u00e1mi, Czech, Ukrainian, Spanish, and Persian.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pictured are (from left to right): Reza Soltani, Anna Endresen, Tore Nesset, Svetlana Sokolova, Laura A. Janda, Yuliia Palii, Elmira Zhamaletdinova, Valentina Zhukova. 2023<\/p>\n<div><hr \/><\/div>\n<p>Funding: CLEAR is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/startsida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Troms\u00f8<\/a>, and CLEAR&#8217;s projects are supported by external grants from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forskningsradet.no\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norwegian Research Council<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cas.oslo.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Advanced Study<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/diku.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Direktoratet for internasjonalisering og kvalitetsutvikling av h\u00f8yere utdanning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-329 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/clear3large.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/clear3large.png 779w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/clear3large-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2019\/11\/clear3large-768x232.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are (from left to right): Reza Soltani, Anna Endresen, Tore Nesset, Svetlana Sokolova, Laura A. 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