COGNITIVE CONTEXT AND LINGUISTIC MEANING FORMATION (CONCEPT IDLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES ENGLISH)

COGNITIVE CONTEXT AND LINGUISTIC MEANING FORMATION (CONCEPT IDLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES ENGLISH)

Author:  Olga V. Afanasyeva, Olga G. Chupryna

Affiliation:  Moscow City Teacher Training University

Abstract:  The article focuses on the role of cognitive context in linguistic meaning formation. The aim of the article is to reveal motives underlying the concept IDLE and circumstances of its development in the English language of the Middle Ages. Diachronic approach to conceptual domains is new to this kind of analysis. The authors have modelled fragments of the conceptual domains EMPTINESS, OWNERSHIP, COURAGE, COWARDICE, USELESS, IDLE and provided them with their key representatives in Old and Middle English.

Keywords:  cognitive context, concept, motivation, knowledge format, AngloSaxon.

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