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“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

COGNITIVE SCHEMAS OF LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION

COGNITIVE SCHEMAS OF LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION


Author:  N.N. Boldyrev

Affiliation:  Derzhavin Tambov State University

Abstract:  The author analyses forms of linguistic cognition which are used for mental construal of the world and for primary and secondary interpreting it, i.e. cognitive schemas of interpretation of variety of objects, events and of their characteristics as they are in the world around, on the one hand, and those of interpretation of conventional world knowledge, on the other. He argues that structuring world and world knowledge in the processes of conceptualization and categorization is always interpretative and follows some general, or conventional, and specific, or individual, cognitive schemas. This argument derives on the author-suggested three-member pattern of language functions, claiming ‘the interpretive function’ to be a basic one along with the cognitive and communicative functions. It is the interpretive function of language that requires a broad choice of schemas to structure the world and the world knowledge and to trigger selection, classification and evaluation as three basic processes of linguistic interpretation. Among the conventional schemas employed in these processes are propositional, image-schematic, metaphoric, and metonymic ones as well as certain types of concepts and categories, the structure of thematic conceptual domains and of lexical, grammatical, and modus categories. Individually specific can be human particular systems of conceptualization and categorization, complex propositions, newly-construed metaphors, and modified conventional schemas which are specifically represented in language.

Keywords:  cognitive schema, linguistic interpretation, interpretive function, structure, thematic conceptual domain, concept, category, proposition, linguistic representation.

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Pages:  10-20

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