Tambov
SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”

COGNITIVE BASES OF CATEGORIZING A PERSON'S PRIVATE SPACE GERMAN

COGNITIVE BASES OF CATEGORIZING A PERSON'S PRIVATE SPACE GERMAN


Author:  I.Yu. Bezukladova

Affiliation:  Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

Abstract
Individual space categorization is one of the ways of world structuring by means of language. Individual space categorization is based on culturally determined knowledge and on the subjectivity of the cognitive process and its social determinancy. One forms his her identity in a particular type of individual space, at a particular time, considering a number of extralinguistic factors in the system of three coordinates (individual, spatial and temporal coordinates). This conceptual model is formed on the basis of the system of oppositions realized on different levels of language.

Keywords:  socially generated meaning, individual space, social identity, deixis, linguistic mechanisms of categorization

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