This article is aimed at exploring the conceptual sphere of “creativity” using the cognitive approach to language study. The key concepts of this concept sphere have been determined, and some approaches to the study of its constituent concepts have been analyzed. The main results of the associative experiment are given in the article
The analysis of utopian literature is carried out in the proposed article from the point of view of social diagnosis. It is based on work of Socialists-utopians such as Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen
This article is devoted to the development of the social
aspects of the concept of "Friend" in Russian dating from
the 12th century. The article describes the main stages of
formation of the concept "Friend", states the social
aspects of its development, as well as their reflection in
the semantics of the Russian words. Based on the works
of authoritative linguists, we found out that the
conceptual sphere of language is undergoing changes,
depending on the social and historical factors – it may be
restricted, expanded, changed in its evaluation, the
disappearance of parts of concepts or even the whole
concepts may occur, which are naturally reflected in the
vocabulary of the language. In addition, such a
phenomenon as a change in the nominative density of the
concept can be observed, which is the loss of some of the
nominations and / or acquisition of new ones. The
considered concept "Friend" is defined in the article as a
non-parametric, non-regulatory, socio-specific concept,
which usage depends on the specifics of the society in
which it is used. The analysis of the concept "Friend"
usage based on the material of different literary,
documentary and historical sources showed that the social
sphere of functioning of the concept "Friend" from the
12th to the 20th century includes the sphere of generic
communication, non-blood everyday social contacts,
trade and other economic relations, warfare and
communication at the highest levels
The article deals with the semantic peculiarities of verbal nouns in the English, German and Russian languages. We also give the comparative analysis of object meanings of verbal nouns based on the researches of Russian and foreign linguists.
The article deals with semantic development of verbs
of the three languages different by structure (English,
Russian and Tatar). Many of derivatives on the certain
stage of linguistic development are perceived as the
basic meaning, which is a normal linguistic
phenomenon, when one lexical meaning stops being
actual and is not used any more or is used so rarely
that it is perceived as a secondary meaning. The work
represents analysis of derivative potential of verbs with
pressure meaning and common tendencies of semantic
shifts of verbs belonging to this verbal group. In
particular, among common tendencies for lexems of
this group was acquiring meanings of negative affect
on an object, destruction, processing, relation,
emotional state and denoting some kinds of
professional activity
This article is aimed at researching the semantic operations of inferencing macropropositions. Theoretical description and classification of data are given
The article deals with the concepts of situations that are set by the verb ‘tener’ on a material of Kamilo José Sela work of art. Semantic dominants of constructions with ‘tener’ are defined and analyzed
The article is devoted to the study of peculiar features of mental processes verbalization in the contemporary English discourse. The choice of the mentalist or cognitive approach to the object of study is explained by its complexity; so this very approach will help to view upon the dynamic characteristics of psyche as upon the object of study and as the method of study at the same time
The article analyzes the particular characteristics of
the logical and psychological sides of argumentation
as a means of a persuasive effect in the speech of a
public linguistic identity. The relevance of the
research is defined by the importance of problems of
studying the language of the given linguistic
identities. The novelty is in the aspect of setting the
problem of studying various types of public linguistic
identities and in involving previously unresearched
material. The object of study is a rhetorical speech
portrait of a public language identity (prosecutor).
The subject is particularities of logical and
psychological lines of reasoning as ways of
persuasive effect. The method used is scientific
description with elements of speech portraying,
observation. As a whole, the speech of the prosecutor
corresponds to the rhetorical canons, having a
standard logical composition: introduction, analysis
and evaluation of the evidence gathered in the case,
personality characteristics, conclusion. Various types
of logical and rhetorical (psychological) lines of
reasoning were distinguished in the course of the
analysis. It is found that the text is rich in affective
evaluation and metaphors. The general strategy is the
prevalence of the psychological side of persuasive
speech over the logical. The public language identity
chosen strategy turned out to be successful, i.e. it
made the speech expressive, original, assisting the formation of the judge's opinion in terms of
conviction
The article provides the review of the main concepts of
discourse analysis, proceeding from a theoretical and
practical criterion. The approaches to the analysis of
discourse are realized in the models, which enable to
carry out a productive research of different types of a
discourse, and are generalized in a diachronical aspect.
Among them, one can find the concepts which go back
to "dialogical aesthetics" of M.M. Bakhtin and the
views of the French school of discourse analysis. The
conclusion about the efficiency of integrative approach
is drawn