COGNITIVE GROUNDS AND INTERPRETATION OF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTS (based on English texts of the VIII-XII centuries)

COGNITIVE GROUNDS AND INTERPRETATION OF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTS (based on English texts of the VIII-XII centuries)

Author:  A.G. Gurochkina

Affiliation:  Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Gertsen

Abstract: 
The paper deals with what is conventionally referred to as “impersonal” sentences describing various meteorological phenomena including seasonal and lighting changes. An analysis of such texts from the cognitive-communicative point of view highlights the limitations of the traditional approach which overlooks the role of the observer / speaker.

Keywords:  impersonal sentences, perception, cognitive structures, observer, distributed cognition, organism-environment, phenomenological knowledge, structural knowledge