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CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION AS A TOOL OF MEANING FORMATION IN THE SHORT STORY TEXT

CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION AS A TOOL OF MEANING FORMATION IN THE SHORT STORY TEXT


Author:  E.V. Kalinina

Abstract:  In the article an attempt is made to investigate some theoretical ideas of cognitive linguistics in the aspect of defining how various linguistic processes predetermine forming and initiating the meaning content of the story text. This investigative perspective sheds light upon one of the most disputable questions of cognitive poetics and stylistics connected with literary text effective inter-pretation, not the interpretation description of the particular text, but the explanation of the address-ee’s capacity to interpret the text and understand it as the whole. For comprehending and effective explaining the story text meaning richness we should reveal the cognitive processes which, in fact, lead to creating the final construct (i.e. the coherent text). This task solving is determined by the analysis of reader’s capacity to actualize the particular cultural frames, recognize conceptually inte-grated narrative spaces in the text.

Keywords:  cognitive poetics, story text, cognitions, cultural frames, narrative space, conceptual integration, meaning / sense.

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Pages:  969-974

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