Author: T.V. Beloshapkova
Affiliation: Moscow City Teacher Training University
Abstract:
The article focuses on the investigation of the connections between traditional Russian linguistics and cognitive linguistics. The theory of conceptual category and the theory of nominalization are analysed as general linguistics tradition. The idea of «umbrella» character of the cognitive-discoursive paradigm is declared. Speech studies are regarded as a type of discourse investigation.
Keywords: theory of conceptual category, theory of nominalization, cognitive-discoursive paradigm, speech studies, discourse