SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: S.V. Kiseleva, M.M. Boyarskaya
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg
Abstract:
At the heart of the cognitive model of the meaning of the verb lies an obvious image of the situation or event perceived by a native speaker. As a result of sensory information processing in the language system it does not correspond to the scheme or frame, but to another cognitive unit which has rather a hierarchical than linear structure that consists of the action itself and its relations with objects and persons who perform this action.
Keywords: cognitive model, the value of the verb, conceptualization, categorization, concept, the conceptual framework, proposition, metonymy, folded situation, categorical events, signs, whole, part of the background, the figure, invariant, mental structure