# Pragmatism, Ideology and Embodiment_ Wil - Tim Rohrer **Opening (not a real abstract):** Much as I dislike beginning a paper with prefatory remarks, it seems equally important to note that we must make a fundamental distinction between work which uses the techniques and methods of cognitive linguistics to analyse ideology, and that which focuses on questioning the philosophical foundations and ideological systems implicit within cognitive linguistics itself. Put in a pithy nutshell, this is the distinction between thinking about the cognitive linguistics of ideology on one hand and the ideology of cognitive linguistics on the other. Yet this distinction is basic to understanding how these two types of projects proceed, and the organisation of these two the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics, while in an article in the other volume of this collection I use the methods of cognitive linguistics **Authors:** [[Pragmatism, Ideology and Embodiment:]]