Tambov
All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

MENTAL REPRESENTATION, CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE REFERENT SCENE AND PROPOSITION AS COORDINATED FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

MENTAL REPRESENTATION, CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE REFERENT SCENE AND PROPOSITION AS COORDINATED FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION


Author:  I.Yu. Kolesov

Abstract
The transition from mental representation of an event as a frame-organized knowledge structure towards a proposition as the semantic structure of the utterance involves the level of conceptualization of the referent scene. Transition from the world view towards the concept underlying a separate utterance reflects differentiation and specification of conceptual structures in representing knowledge. Mental representations comprise schematic knowledge of typical events; conceptualizations of referent scenes set the angles of cognitive modeling of relevant (actual for the speaker) events and provide higher granularity of the concept. Propositions reduce the schematic knowledge but add to conceptualizations the knowledge of language resources as well as truth and modality values.

Pages:  5-14

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