REIFICATION AS SEEN THROUGH MONO- AND MULTIMODALITY OF COMMUNICATION

REIFICATION AS SEEN THROUGH MONO- AND MULTIMODALITY OF COMMUNICATION

Author:  Iriskhanova O.K.

Affiliation:  Deputy Head of SocioCognitive Reseach Center (Moscow State Linguistic University)

Abstract:  The paper focuses on reification which is considered as the mental ability to conceptualize abstract entities as concrete objects. This ability is manifested in the language by means of nominalizations – nouns derived from other part of speech. Analyzing Russian and English nouns the author argues that nominalizations form a continuum according to the degree of reification. In multimodal discourse reification is realized not only by linguistic expressions, but by elements from other semiotic systems – images and gestures.

Keywords:  reification, nominalization, deverbal nouns, deadjectival nouns, multimodal discourse

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Pages:  62-64