COGNITIVE PARADOXES AND THE CAUSES OF THEIR FORMATION IN THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF SECONDARY SIGNS

COGNITIVE PARADOXES AND THE CAUSES OF THEIR FORMATION IN THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF SECONDARY SIGNS

Author:  Kristina I. Dekatova

Affiliation:  Volgograd state pedagogical university

Abstract: 
The article is devoted to analysis of cognitive paradoxes and their role in evolution of linguistic signs. The principal causes of contradictions in the cognitive basis of secondary signs are described.

Keywords:  cognitive paradox, idiom, secondary signs, cognitive basis of meaning

Pages:  64-71