COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN PHILOLOGY: CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF A LITERARY TEXT

COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN PHILOLOGY: CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF A LITERARY TEXT

Author:  L.G. Babenko¹, V.G. Babenko²

Affiliation:  ¹ Ural Federal University, ² Yekaterinburg State Theatre Institute

Abstract:  This article focuses on the application of methods of cognitive studies in philology employed for interpreting poetic texts, revealing, and comprehending the key concepts in the aspect of their mental structure. For the purpose of the research, the authors use the methods of conceptual analysis of poetic texts to establish the individual author’s idea of the world. They examine the literary and artistic concept love, referring to Alexander Pushkin’s I Loved You and Anna Akhmatova’s Love, which provide a different representation of the concept in question. The article aims at revealing the peculiarities of mental representation of the concept and its structural organisation in the context of the two poems by the outstanding poets.
The analysis carried out demonstrates that, on the one hand, in the poems examined, the cognitive features of the concept love can be characterised by a universal notional structure: it contains cognitive features of the basic zones, i.e. nuclear, circumnuclear, and peripheral. On the other hand, the content of the zones largely depends on the poet and is unique both quantitatively and qualitatively, which can be explained by the author’s different perception and feeling. In Pushkin’s poem, all the varieties and types of cognitive features are evenly and harmoniously present in the text; namely, they are the basic conceptual, specifying, combined, and pragmatic (evaluative and associational) features that facilitate the description of love as a complex multifold feeling. By contrast, Akhmatova’s poem is constructed around a metaphorical figurative depiction of the feeling of love; its name is only mentioned in the title of the poem, and its other representations make part of a many-sided changeable image of love.

Keywords:  conceptual analysis, poetic text, concept of love, mental structure.

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Acknowledgments:  The research was supported by Act 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation, contract 02.A03.21.0006.

For citation:  Babenko, L. G., & Babenko, V. G. (2019). Cognitive technologies in philology: conceptual analysis of a literary text. Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki, 4, 135-140. (In Russ.).

Pages:  135-140