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RUSSIAN CONCEPTUAL VIEW: E.S. KUBRYAKOVA'S CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

RUSSIAN CONCEPTUAL VIEW: E.S. KUBRYAKOVA'S CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS


Author:  V.I. Zabotkina

Affiliation:  Russian State University for the Humanities

Abstract
The article deals with the analysis of Russian cognitive view, offered by E.S. Kubryakova school. A special focus is given to differences between E.S. Kubryakova broad approach and narrow «computerized» cognitive models and approaches of Western linguistics. The special significance of a guiding linguistic function, offered by E.S. Kubryakova as a basis of a dichotomy «cognition-communication» is also considered. The interplay between a cognition and a discourse is defined.

Keywords:  cognition, discourse, concept, sign, guiding linguistic function

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