Sociocultural Commitment of Cognitive Linguistics via dimensions of context

Abstract

he paper explores basic properties of language that can be explained by appealing to its main functions, namely, cognitive, communicative, and interpretive. Although the irst two functions have always been recognized, it is only recently that the third one has been outlined (see Boldyrev, 2011Boldyrev, , 2012Boldyrev, , 2013Boldyrev, , 2014. Boldyrev claims that linguistic interpretation reveals static and dynamic processes of cognition shaping overall collective and individual knowledge of language speakers. Viewed from this perspective, linguistic interpretation involves selection, classiication, and evaluation within contexts of knowledge that language speakers acquire as members of societies and cultures. hese contexts are dependent on metaconcepts -Roles, Stereotypes, Values, Norms, Space, Time, Language Performance -that regulate language use. his paper examines static vs. dynamic, collective vs. individual and the metaconceptual dimensions of contexts of knowledge to suggest that they underlie the Sociocultural Commitment of Cognitive Linguistics.

The Interpretive Dominant In The Cognitive Theory Of Language

“…It is constrained by the context of the speaker's overall, socio-cultural and linguistic knowledge, i.e. by his/her conceptual system and linguistic image of the world, see also (Boldyrev & Dubrovskaya, 2016).…”

Language Sign As A Means Of Objectification Of Human Consciousness

“…Researchers, speaking about similar phenomena in the human mental consciousness, use different names (Dzyuba, 2018;Evans, 2006;Maslova, 2021;Pesina, 2021;Skripnikova, 2015). In the works of Boldyrev and Dubrovskaya (2016) and Besedina (2021) notes that concepts reflected in the grammatical concepts are used to represent significant concepts of real life. In Kazakh linguistics, morphological concepts have not yet become the object of special studies.…”

The role of the alternative relation in cognition and the disjunctive conjunctions as a means of its verbalization

“…The cognitive approach has become widespread in linguistics as on the one hand it enables to understand better and interpret correctly various language phenomena, on the other hand, the mental operations of our mind are not directly observable, but one can get the information about them analyzing language phenomena. The theoretical and methodological issues of cognitive linguistics have been discussed in the works of Russian [1,2] and foreign scholars [3,4] who contributed to its development as an interdisciplinary science. Nowadays, the cognitive approach is used in the studies devoted to European languages, such as English [5,6], German [7], Hungarian [8], which differ considerably in their structure.…”

“…It will also help to estimate the significance of English syntactic structures with the disjunctive conjunction for the communicative purposes and to emphasize the necessity of giving special attention to them while teaching English. The research is based on the general ideas of cognitive linguistics presented in the works of N. Boldyrev [1,2] as well as on the cognitive principles of semantic syntax developed by K. Fischer [3].…”