Daniyeva M.Dj.
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC COGNITION *
Аннотация:
the article is dealt with one of the actual problems of cognitive linguistics that linguistic cognition is an inextricable phenomenon of overall human cognition. The material of the article is based on the examples of literary works taken from English literature
Ключевые слова:
assumption, cognitive linguistics, phenomenon, structure, language, concreteness, generalization, categorization
In his book “Cognitive Linguistics” well-known scientist Sh.Safarov gives a full definition to the concepts Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Cognition [6, c. 17]. Cognitive linguists, like other linguists, study languages for its own sake; they attempt to describe and account for its systematicity, its structure, the functions it serves, and how these functions are realized by the language system. However, an important reason behind why cognitive linguists study language stems from the assumptions that language reflects patterns of thought. Therefore, to study language from this perspective is to study patterns of conceptualization. Language offers a window into cognitive function, providing insights into the nature, structure and organization of thoughts and ideas. The most important way in which cognitive linguistics differs from other approaches to the study of language, then, is that language is assumed to reflect certain fundamental properties and design features of the human mind. As we will see throughout this book, this assumption has far-reaching implications for the scope, methodology and models developed within the cognitive linguistic enterprise. Not least, an important criterion for judging a model of language is whether the model is psychologically plausible. Cognitive linguistics is a relatively new school of linguistics, and one of the most innovative and exciting approaches to the study of language and thought that science. Language can be used to create scenes, or frames of experience, indexing and even constructing a particular context [1,c. 204]. In other words, language use can invoke frames that summon rich knowledge structures, which serve to call up and fill in background knowledge. The main assumption of cognitive linguistics is that linguistic cognition is an inextricable phenomenon of overall human cognition and as such we expect patterns and structures of cognition observed by psychologists, neurobiologists and the like to be reflected in language. Conversely, linguistic structures, by virtue of their relative concreteness, provide generalizations that may reflect basic human cognitive abilities and processes which still remain unobservable directly. Linguistic structures are not only relatively concrete and directly observable; what is even more important is that they are also examples of categorization that is abstract, automatic and entirely unconscious. Linguistic categories are among the kinds of abstract categories that are, perhaps, the most important ones for the study of the mind as their conceptual structure cannot be viewed as merely a mirror of nature. As G. Lakoff, one of the major influences in cognitive linguistics, points out human language is an important source of evidence for the nature of cognitive categories [3, c. 127]. Conversely, the views on cognitive categorization such as H. Marchand’s prototype theory should affect the theories of categorization used in linguistics. If languages use the kind of categories used by the mind in general, then linguistic theory should be bound up with cognitive issues in general [5,c.78]. This assumption is also outlined by one other founder of the cognitive linguistics school of thought, Ronald Langacker, against the background the generative grammarian approach to the issue: “Language is an integral part of human cognition [4,c. 239]. An account of linguistic structure should, therefore, articulate with what is known about cognitive processing in general, regardless of whether one posits a special language “module [2, c.95]” or an innate language.” If such a faculty exists, it is nevertheless embedded in the general psychological matrix, for it represents the evolution and fixation of structures having a less specialized origin. Even if the blueprints of language are wired genetically into the human organism, their elaboration into a fully specialized linguistic system during language acquisition, and their implementation in everyday language use, are clearly dependent on experiential factors and inextricably bound up with psychological phenomena that are not specifically linguistic in character. Thus we have no valid reason to anticipate a sharp dichotomy between linguistic ability and other aspects of cognitive processing. Instead of grasping at any apparent rationale for asserting the uniqueness and insularity of language, we should try more seriously to integrate the findings of linguistics and cognitive psychology.
Номер журнала Вестник науки №7 (28) том 2
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Daniyeva M.Dj. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC COGNITION // Вестник науки №7 (28) том 2. С. 5 - 7. 2020 г. ISSN 2712-8849 // Электронный ресурс: https://www.вестник-науки.рф/article/3420 (дата обращения: 26.04.2024 г.)
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