Author: V.F. Novodranova, J.B. Motro
Affiliation: Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
Abstract:
The article is aimed to describe the meanings of terms in discourse and those factors which influence all these changes. Semantic modifications are described on the basis of cognitive processes of conceptualization and construal. The semantic analyses are delivered on the basis of R. Langacker’s and L. Talmy’s cognitive notions of conceptual scope, profiling and active zone.
Keywords: cognitive linguistics, process of communication, discourse, conceptualization, scientific, academic and popular scientific texts