COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE WORLD-MODELLING: DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION THEORY IN THE MAKING

COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE WORLD-MODELLING: DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION THEORY IN THE MAKING

Author:  S. L. Kushneruk

Abstract:  The article focuses on cognitive-discursive World-modelling Theory in the making. One of the basic assumptions behind the concept is that discourse as a complex process of language communication unfolding over time should be analyzed in terms of mental representations. The theory is basically premised on three cognitive-oriented theories - Emmot's Theory of contextual frames, Werth's Text World Theory, and Fauconnier's Mental Space Theory which are particularly concerned with the problems of the meaning of a text as a complex mental representation. Discourse analysis in world-modelling perspective gives insights into construction of pragmatically-oriented mental representations as means of social regulation.

Keywords:  cognitive-discursive world-modelling, discourse representation theory, mental structures, discourse world, text world, contextual frame, mental space

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Pages:  446-450