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“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”

FIGURE – GROUND, VERBAL DESCRIPTION, ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE COMMUNICATION, ANGLE OF OBSERVATION

FIGURE – GROUND, VERBAL DESCRIPTION, ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE COMMUNICATION, ANGLE OF OBSERVATION


Author:  N.A. Abieva

Affiliation:  Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen

Abstract
Ontological characteristics of the “FIGURE – GROUND” cognitive structure are dealt with in the paper. It is shown that the basic model of verbal description is based on that structure retaining its main constituents (observer, figure, ground, and angle of observation).

Keywords:  figure – ground, verbal description, on-line and off-line communication, angle of observation

Pages:  249-248

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