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The article looks at the contribution of cognitive-semantic approach in linguistics into communication science. It is argued that verbal communication is viewed as a creative process that has cognitive background. It performs a reshaping... more
The article looks at the contribution of cognitive-semantic approach in linguistics into communication science. It is argued that verbal communication is viewed as a creative process that has cognitive background. It performs a reshaping function towards the language in its turn, too.
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В статье проводится анализ феномена креативности в дорожных знаках, содержащих мономодальные визуальные, мультимодальные вербально-визуальные или смешанные метафоры. Актуальность исследования механизма возникновения феномена смешанной... more
В статье проводится анализ феномена креативности в дорожных знаках, содержащих мономодальные визуальные, мультимодальные вербально-визуальные или смешанные метафоры. Актуальность исследования механизма возникновения феномена смешанной метафоры на материале изображений дорожных знаков, в которых наблюдаются креативные целенаправленные девиации от прототипа весьма высока, поскольку уровень возникающего когнитивного диссонанса у водителей транспортных средств и пешеходов при взаимодействии с дорожными знаками напрямую влияет на уровень безопасности и комфортности дорожного движения и в идеале должен быть приближен к нулю. В задачи исследования входит поэтапный анализ проблемы формирования смысла подобных метафор и изучение факторов, которые могут способствовать успешности расшифровки их смысла. Целью работы является изучение когнитивных и прагматических особенностей функционирования метафоры в дорожных знаках. Результаты исследования показали, что когнитивный диссонанс, возникающий у р...
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The article focuses on the new language teaching and learning strategies offered by the use of corpora-based method. It gives an insight into how a corpus-based research incorporated into English grammar classroom activities not only... more
The article focuses on the new language teaching and learning strategies offered by the use of corpora-based method. It gives an insight into how a corpus-based research incorporated into English grammar classroom activities not only clarifies the debatable aspects of traditional grammar rules but challenges students to launch their own language investigation, enlarging their professional scope and contributing to the development of their general and linguistic competences. The background for the pedagogical experiment was the need for a shift in the teacher–student model of interaction. To prove the benefits of semi-independent student’s research, the article covers four research cases performed by 3rd year students at Moscow State Linguistic University under the guidance of their English grammar lecturers. While working at their respective tasks, the students tried their hand at a proper piece of scientific study and mastered their skills at a new research instrument. Corpus data ...
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The article analyses the process of meaning formation of names of warships in the military discourse with the aim of identifying conceptual mechanisms which underlie the naming of seacraft. The research constitutes part of the study in... more
The article analyses the process of meaning formation of names of warships in the military discourse with the aim of identifying conceptual mechanisms which underlie the naming of seacraft. The research constitutes part of the study in the field of cognitive linguistics and fills in the gap in the studies of metaphoric potential and cultural specificities of secondary names applied to artifacts (as big as warships) in British and American tradition. The results show that of all 1200 seacraft names, 700 units are originally zoomorphic common nouns transformed into proper names of seacraft with which they “share” and sometimes even exchange some of their basic or latent semantic characteristics. It was revealed that underlying mechanisms of meaning formation in seacraft nicknames are cognitive mechanisms of conceptual metaphor, focusing and defocusing. To describe them the methods of frame analysis and cognitive metaphoric modelling are employed. Metaphor in the paper is both the obje...
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The article traces the evolution of lexicographic sources over the last 40 years. It also speaks about the advantages and potentialities of electronic dictionaries.
The article shows the advantages of corpus data research in dealing with challenging issues in cognitive semantics.
The article traces the development of scientific thought at the department of English lexicology from 1973 up to 2010. Chronologically the period is subdivided into three time spans reflecting the evolution of linguistic paradigms within... more
The article traces the development of scientific thought at the department of English lexicology from 1973 up to 2010. Chronologically the period is subdivided into three time spans reflecting the evolution of linguistic paradigms within the departmental scientific activity. The article highlights the continuity of research and the role of outstanding scientists who impacted the development of linguistics.
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The article generalizes and analyses the perspectives of cognitive linguistics as outlined in the articles contributed by E. S. Kubriakova, the founder of cognitive school in Russia in the last five years. Some key terms that are often... more
The article generalizes and analyses the perspectives of cognitive linguistics as outlined in the articles contributed by E. S. Kubriakova, the founder of cognitive school in Russia in the last five years. Some key terms that are often misinterpreted are also discussed.
The article seeks to reveal structural and semantic differences in the functioning of the so-called phrasal verbs in British and American English, focusing primarily on the typological features of the English language. The role of the... more
The article seeks to reveal structural and semantic differences in the functioning of the so-called phrasal verbs in British and American English, focusing primarily on the typological features of the English language. The role of the verb in general as the conceptual nucleus in a sentence is highlighted to show the strategies of analyzing and systematizing the dialectal variation in the system of verb-satellite constructions. The research is based on dictionaries and backed up by corpus data.
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The article investigates the semantics of English phrasal verbs (PhVs) which are viewed as lexico-grammatical constructions. Triangulation of introspective, cognitive and corpus methods of analysis allows us to identify the se- mantic... more
The article investigates the semantics of English phrasal verbs (PhVs) which are viewed as lexico-grammatical constructions. Triangulation of introspective, cognitive and corpus methods of analysis allows us to identify the se- mantic dimensions which feature the semantic pattern of the PhV-construction. The construction reveals the features of attraction involving new verbs provided the action or motion event is identical. Depending on the attraction strength level between the verb and the particle a new verb may be accepted to fill in the corresponding slot of the construction, which gives rise to a new phrasal verb. It allows us to categorise PhVs according to the attraction level and spot their PhV-patterns on corpus data.
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The paper addresses the issue of meaning-making in a highly prolific and sprawling segment of English vocabulary – derivatives from precedent names (DPNs). The combination of cognitive linguistics methods applied to analyze the semantics... more
The paper addresses the issue of meaning-making in a highly prolific and sprawling segment of English vocabulary – derivatives from precedent names (DPNs). The combination of cognitive linguistics methods applied to analyze the semantics of DPNs (Robin Hood cluster, Cinderella-based blends and Dorian Gray effect) permitted to account for their bias towards polysemy, which seems to be basically grounded in the process of metonymic zoom-in on the selected content in the event frame that describes the precedent name, oftentimes leading to domain extension and indeterminacy.