ON AN APPROACH TO MODELLING THE CONCEPTUAL SPACE OF LANGUAGE SIGNS AND TEXTS

• Main Author: Ivanova, E.V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marina Sokolova Publishings 2017-12-01
• Series: Russian Linguistic Bulletin
• Subjects: concept; conceptual space; cognitheme; modelling; концепт; концептуальное пространство; когнитема; моделирование
• Online Access: http://rulb.org/wp-content/uploads/wpem/pdf_compilations/4(12)/42-45.pdf

The paper examines one of the possible approaches to exploring the conceptual space represented by language signs and texts. The notion of the cognitheme as a unit of knowledge in the form of a proposition, functional for modelling the conceptual space, is defined and some principles of the cognitheme analysis are discussed. The cognitheme is considered as a unit of modelling mental entities reflected in the language, for example, such as the concept or the conceptual space connected with a text, and at the same time as a unit of conceptualization significant in its own right, revealing elements of knowledge important for a language community and thus fixed in language signs and texts. A feasible classification of cognithemes is described, examples illustrating this classification are given.