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

EVALUATIVE PROFILE OF THE FIELD “HUMAN BEING” AS REALISATION OF INTERPRETATIVE POTENTIAL OF LEXICAL CATEGORIES (evidence from English)

EVALUATIVE PROFILE OF THE FIELD “HUMAN BEING” AS REALISATION OF INTERPRETATIVE POTENTIAL OF LEXICAL CATEGORIES (evidence from English)


Author:  L.А. Panasenko

Affiliation:  Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

Abstract: 

The article considers the cognitive grounds of formation of evaluative meanings for the field “human being” on the basis of knowledge structures verbalized in lexical categories that represent world’s ontology. The conceptual content and structure of the lexical categories make up their interpretative potential. It means that differential properties of the categorial elements are viewed as basic concepts for evaluative conceptualization. The realization of interpretative potential of such categories as “birds”, “animals”, “artifacts”, “objects of inanimate nature”, “nature phenomena” is conditioned by their ability to deliver evaluative conceptualization of domains of the field “human being”: “physical parameters”, “psyche”, “socialization”. It becomes possible in the course of setting corresponding inter-conceptual connections in the process of conceptual derivation. 
Thus, the domain “physical parameters”, as differentiated in the sub-domain “human appearance”, acquires evaluative conceptualization through such lexical categories as “birds”, “animals”, “plants”, “substances”. The domain “psyche” is realized in the sub-domains “intellectual abilities”, “behavior”, “disposition”. The evaluative profile of this domain is represented by the categories “animals”, “birds”, “fruits”, “artifacts”, “nature phenomena”. The domain “socialization”, as differentiated in the subdomain “social status”, is conceptualized in terms of the categories “birds”, “fruits”, “artifacts”, “nature phenomena”. 
The analysis of evaluative conceptualization of the field “human being” reveals that lexical units of different “ontological” categories form a group on the basis of their ability to effect characterizing interpretation of the field in question. It entails their entering evaluative categories as their non-prototypical members.

Keywords:  linguistic interpretation, lexical categories, interpretative potential, evaluative categories, levels of evaluative categorization, conceptual derivation, domains, inter-conceptual connections

References: 
Boldyrev, N.N. Struktura i printsipy formirovaniya otsenochnykh kategoriy. In S lyubov'yu k yazyku: sbornik nauchnykh trudov, posvyashch. E.S. Kubryako-voy. Moscow; Voronezh: In-t yazykoznaniya RAN; VGU, 2002. P. 103-114. 
Boldyrev, N.N. Yazykovye kategorii kak format znaniya. Voprosy kognitivnoy lingvistiki, 2006, 2, 5-22.
Boldyrev, N.N. Otsenochnaya metareprezentatsiya: problemy izucheniya i opisaniya. In Kognitivnye issledovaniya yazyka. Vyp. V. Issledovanie poznavatel'nykh protsessov v yazyke: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Moscow: In-t yazykoznaniya RAN; Tambov: Izdatel'skiy dom TGU im. G.R. Derzhavina, 2009. P. 43-51.
Boldyrev, N.N. Kategorial'nyy uroven' predstavleniya znaniy v yazyke: modusnaya kategoriya otritsaniya. In Kognitivnye issledovaniya yazyka. Vyp. VII. Tipy kategoriy v yazyke: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Moscow: In-t yazykoznaniya RAN; Tambov: Izdatel'skiy dom TGU im. G.R. Derzhavina, 2010. P. 45-59.
Boldyrev, N.N. Kategorial'naya sistema yazyka. In Kognitivnye issledovaniya yazyka. Vyp. X. Kategorizatsiya mira v yazyke: kollektivnaya monografiya. Moscow: In-t yazykoznaniya RAN; Tambov: Izdatel'skiy dom TGU im. G.R. Derzhavina, 2012. P. 17-120.
Kubryakova, E.S. Yazyk i znanie: Na puti polucheniya znaniy o yazyke: Chasti rechi s kognitivnoy tochki zreniya. Rol' yazyka v poznanii mira. Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskoy kul'tury, 2004. 
Pankova, T.N. Natsional'naya spetsifika metaforicheskoy nominatsii (na materiale russkikh i angliyskikh leksem, ob"edinennykh semanticheskim komponentom «rastenie»): avtoref. dis. … kand. filol. nauk. Voronezh, 2009. 
Setarov, R.D. Natsional'naya  spetsifika obraznoy nominatsii (na materiale  nazvaniy rasteniy v slavyanskikh, germanskikh i  tyurkskikh yazykakh): dis. … kand. filol. nauk. Voronezh, 2000.
CCED – Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1997). London: Harper Collins Publishers.
LDCE – Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1995). Longman. 
MWCD – Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (2000). Springfield, М assachusetts, USA: Merriam-Webster Inc. 
BNC – British National Corpus. URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk 
COCA – Corpus of Contemporary American English. URL: http: //corpus.buy.edu/coca/

Pages:  90-95

Back to the list



Login:
Password: