SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: A.G. Gurochkina
Affiliation: Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Gertsen
Abstract:
The paper discusses patterns of cognizing abstractions. The latter can be understood by heuristic thinking which interprets them in terms of entities on analogy with phenomena accessible through perception.
Keywords: conceptual interaction, cognition, concept “time”, metaphor, metonymy