Abstract

Conferences on Contrastive Linguistics (CL) are being held around the world in order to find a consensus on various disciplinary points. This study intends to explore the conceptual landscape of contrastive Linguistics as a new discipline. Provided that disciplinary newness is always questioned from various perspectives, the explorative approach will be helpful for the description of the discipline’s conceptual landscape. Findings suggest that its conceptual landscape gets a wide variety of concepts classified as being specialized, discipline-related, operative, borrowed, coined, and methodological.

Keywords

contrastive linguistics, conceptual landscape, concepts, interdisciplinarity