Author: Irina Yu. Bezukladova
Affiliation: Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin
Abstract:
The article deals with the peculiarities of individual space categorization in the German linguistic community. As a theoretical base of investigating this phenomenon the methodology of the cognitive-discursive paradigm is used; it aims to remove tough boarders between cognitive linguistics and pragmalinguistics. In the structure of individual space four spheres are marked: intimate, personal, so-cial and common to all mankind. The examples of functioning of personal and possessive pronouns show how linguistic competence forms concrete cognitive representation based on the linguistic knowledge and knowledge of the world (including knowledge of the peculiarities of individual space portioning).
Keywords: individual space, categorization, structures of knowledge, cognitive representation.
Pages: 30-38