The aim of this text is to contribute to mapping out the interaction between linguistics and translatology within second-generation Cognitive Science, the scientific study of mind that emphasizes the role of the body and the environment. As a consequence, "Cognitive Linguistics" and "Cognitive Translatology" are understood in ways that deserve previous elaboration. Natural language structures are taken to reflect cognitive features and mechanisms influenced both by experience and the environment. This understanding of Cognitive Linguistics (henceforth CL) does not make it a unified endeavor. Rather, several partially overlapping research programs merge into this view, whether departing from Gestalt psychology (Cognitive Grammar), phenomenology (Cognitive Semantics), or sociolinguistics (cf. Geeraerts, Kristiansen, and Peirsman 2010), or else approaching language processing and use from psycholinguistics or discourse analysis (Dirven 2005). Furthermore, CL needs to make the account of the cognitive aspects of language and language use consistent with findings in other cognitive science disciplines (Lakoff 1990: 40). In tum, and as envisioned here, Cognitive Translatology has two basic commitments: an empirical commitment and a cognitive comittment (cf. Muñoz 2010). The combination of these commitments makes Cognitive Translatology a budding, interdisciplinary applied science (Mayoral 2001; Munoz 2010} within second generation Cognitive Science. Since CL and Cognitive Translatology share their cognitive commitment and language has a central position in translating and interpreting processes, CL should have a pivotal role in the development of Cognitive Translatology.
