Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter sketches the newly emerged field of Cognitive Contact Linguistics. In simple terms, it approaches language contact—which traditionally and for the most part has been subsumed under sociolinguistics—on the basis of the theoretical principles and methodological toolbox of Cognitive Linguistics. In that, Cognitive Contact Linguistics is closely aligned with Cognitive Sociolinguistics and Cultural Linguistics, two cognate disciplines. As a legacy of Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Contact Linguistics is, on the one hand, concerned with the individual speaker, but with a particular interest in cognitive phenomena that result from the mental presence of multiple languages. On the other hand, as language contact always involves speech and cultural communities with their distributed cognitions, Cognitive Contact Linguistics has an explicitly sociocultural angle.</jats:p> <jats:p>In this chapter, we touch upon the interrelation between language contact and conceptual contact, delineate the field of Cognitive Contact Linguistics, highlight representative areas of research, and suggest promising future directions.</jats:p>