SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: A.E. Levitsky
Abstract:
Dynamics of the world challenges our mind and makes it possible to get in-formation concerning new objects, phenomena, and ways of behavior. It allows us to name them in accord with our perception, which is grounded upon life experience and existing ethnic, cultural and social stereotypes, i.e. categorize new knowledge within the framework of old traditional categories. New information changes ideas of certain categories, which results into re-categorization. The latter is treated as a mental operation to transform world perception. Cognitive operation of re-categorization is reflected both in designation process and language categorization analysis. This ten-dency goes hand in hand with the changes within language system. Among cognitive grounds of verbalized information re-categorized we single out receiving, processing, storing, and transferring information. They reveal creative character of discursive activity. Ability to cognize the world, human memory work and associative grounds of perception are of great importance as well.
Keywords: re-categorization, language units, discourse, receiving information, processing information, storing information, transferring information