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Savitskaya E.V. [Cognitive patterns of language-based thinking] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2020, Vol. 11, No. 3. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/26FLSK320.pdf (in Russian).

Cognitive patterns of language-based thinking

Savitskaya Ekaterina Vladimirovna
Samara state university of social sciences and education, Samara, Russia
E-mail: lampasha90@mail.ru

Abstract. The article is devoted to substantiation of the notion of cognitive pattern of language-based thinking. The necessity and expediency of its use in linguocognitive research is explained. The definitions and interpretations of the notion under consideration found in research works are quoted and subjected to critical analysis. The history of appearance of the corresponding term is briefly traced. It is shown that cognitive patterns are a multi-aspect phenomenon and, for this reason, should be considered from different angles – from the standpoint of semiology, theory of models, theory of cognition, theory of speech generation; in each of the perspectives they are presented in different ways. From the semiological point of view, cognitive patterns appear as cultural codes, and from the point of view of the theory of cognition – as models of fragments of extralinguistic reality that underlie lexical and phraseological fields. It is noted that in the course of evolution, human thinking, before becoming abstract-theoretical, went through a visual-effective and concrete-figurative stage. At the same time, it inherited the patterns developed in the previous stages; newer representations are built on top of the previous ones, using them as a foundation (substructure). The author outlines the field approach to analysis of cognitive patterns of language-based thinking and describes their role in detecting a connection between sensory and abstract thinking. The author reveals the specificity of natural and artificial classes of objects and shows how the ratio of naturalness/artificiality of a class affects finding cognitive patterns of language-based thinking. The analysis is based on the material of lexico-phraseological fields of the modern English language.

Keywords: language-based thinking; cognitive substrate; cognitive pattern; natural class; artificial class; linguocultural code; inner form of a language unit

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