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

COGNITIVE MODELING OF CULTURAL SCHEMAS «TRAVEL» IN DISCOURSE

COGNITIVE MODELING OF CULTURAL SCHEMAS «TRAVEL» IN DISCOURSE


Author:  Ekaterina A. Starodubtseva (Galkina)

Affiliation:  Kursk State University

Abstract
The present study is an attempt to apply schema theory to the analysis of discourse in Russian and English languages. The research is based on examining cultural schemas «Travel» that can be clearly identified in both languages. Certain discourse markers and discourse strategies appear to be associated with these schemas in discourse and reveal certain recurrent features which point to some distinctive patterns in the processing of the above-mentioned cultural schemas. In the heart of the schemas there lie associations. Schemas are developed and formed through the process of associating concepts with each other.

Keywords:  cognitive structure, schema theory, cultural schema, word-association, reference elements, indexing procedure, discourse, strategies of activation

Pages:  70-78

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