TY - JOUR

T1 - Rationality in Economics and Politics

T2 - A Case Study in the Importance of Adequate Conceptual Analysis

AU - Harder, Peter

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - One of the challenges for Cognitive Linguistics in charting the role of conceptualizations in the human world is how to address the frontier between social and cognitive dimensions of those processes that depend on conceptualization. The case that forms the topic of this paper is the conceptualization of rationality, including specifically rational decision-making in relation to economic dilemmas. I am going to take up the concept of rationality with a view to highlighting the connections between on the one hand its complex conceptual structure and on the other hand its complex societal role, focusing on a crucial context, that of determining and implementing economic policy.

AB - One of the challenges for Cognitive Linguistics in charting the role of conceptualizations in the human world is how to address the frontier between social and cognitive dimensions of those processes that depend on conceptualization. The case that forms the topic of this paper is the conceptualization of rationality, including specifically rational decision-making in relation to economic dilemmas. I am going to take up the concept of rationality with a view to highlighting the connections between on the one hand its complex conceptual structure and on the other hand its complex societal role, focusing on a crucial context, that of determining and implementing economic policy.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - rationalitet

KW - adækvathed

KW - begrebsdannelse

KW - Økonomisk teori og analyse

KW - kognition

U2 - 10.1163/23526416-20201188

DO - 10.1163/23526416-20201188

M3 - Journal article

VL - 7

SP - 31

EP - 53

JO - Cognitive Semantics

JF - Cognitive Semantics

SN - 2352-6408

IS - 1

ER -