theoretical linguistics
3.The Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) put forward by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson and the Blending Theory (BT) proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner are two important theoretical frameworks in cognitive linguistics.
4.The research result lends itself to the elementary education, eliminates illiteracy of Tibetan Language, and has greatly theoretical and applicable value for studying Tibetan Linguistics and establishment of Tibetan language information system.
5.Theoretical Exploration includes Theoretical Frontiers, Corpora &Language Studies, and Corpus linguistics for Beginners; Themed Discussions covers Corpora &Language Education, Learner Corpora &SLA, Spoken Corpora, Parallel &Comparable Corpora, Chinese Corpora, and Texts Archives; Annotation &Tool Development deals with Corpus Concordancing, Corpus Markup &Annotation, and Programming &Tool Development; finally Off Topics includes Site Administration and Free Topics.


