WHAT IS THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF A WORLD IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS?

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This article delves into the fascinating world of cognitive linguistics, an interdisciplinary field that explores the intricate relationship between language, thought, and conceptualization. Like a vibrant tapestry woven with threads from cognition, pragmatics, and function, cognitive linguistics views language as a powerful cognitive tool, encoding and transmitting information through symbols and signs. Within the depths of the human mind, concepts take shape, forming a mosaic of interconnected ideas that find expression in the rich tapestry of language. Cultural experiences, customs, and historical contexts add hues and shades to this linguistic picture, creating a diverse and captivating conceptosphere that reflects the beauty and complexity of our shared human experience.

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Tuxtanazarova Sarvinoz Umidjon qizi. (2024). WHAT IS THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF A WORLD IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS?. American Journal of Philological Sciences, 4(11), 74–78. https://doi.org/10.37547/ajps/Volume04Issue11-13
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Abstract

This article delves into the fascinating world of cognitive linguistics, an interdisciplinary field that explores the intricate relationship between language, thought, and conceptualization. Like a vibrant tapestry woven with threads from cognition, pragmatics, and function, cognitive linguistics views language as a powerful cognitive tool, encoding and transmitting information through symbols and signs. Within the depths of the human mind, concepts take shape, forming a mosaic of interconnected ideas that find expression in the rich tapestry of language. Cultural experiences, customs, and historical contexts add hues and shades to this linguistic picture, creating a diverse and captivating conceptosphere that reflects the beauty and complexity of our shared human experience.


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ABSTRACT

This article delves into the fascinating world of cognitive linguistics, an interdisciplinary field that explores the intricate

relationship between language, thought, and conceptualization. Like a vibrant tapestry woven with threads from

cognition, pragmatics, and function, cognitive linguistics views language as a powerful cognitive tool, encoding and

transmitting information through symbols and signs. Within the depths of the human mind, concepts take shape,

forming a mosaic of interconnected ideas that find expression in the rich tapestry of language. Cultural experiences,

customs, and historical contexts add hues and shades to this linguistic picture, creating a diverse and captivating

conceptosphere that reflects the beauty and complexity of our shared human experience.

KEYWORDS

Cognitive linguistics, language and thought, conceptualization, symbols, signs, cognition, pragmatics

conceptosphere, cultural experiences, linguistic picture of a world.

INTRODUCTION

The study of the relationship between language and

thought by linguists created the ground for the

emergence of macro-linguistics, in particular, cognitive

linguistics. Cognitive linguistics appeared in the 70s of

the 20th century, not based on the internal structure of

the language. linguists made a great contribution to

the development of this field, in contrast to the

structural paradigm, cognitivists emphasized that it is

Research Article

WHAT IS THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF A WORLD IN COGNITIVE
LINGUISTICS?

Submission Date:

November 07, 2024,

Accepted Date:

November 12, 2024,

Published Date:

November 17, 2024

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Tuxtanazarova Sarvinoz Umidjon qizi

Phd student of Fergana State University, Uzbekistan

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not enough to study language according to the internal

structure of the language, dividing it into categories by

external factors, in particular, the human mind ability,

pragmatic, interactive, functional principles, they paid

attention to its connection with symbolic and

economic features. Cognitive linguistics is considered

an interdisciplinary approach that includes concepts

from

various

disciplines,

and

the

American

psychologist H. Gardner noted that cognitive

linguistics connects 6 disciplines. In the diagram below,

solid lines indicate strong connection, solid lines

indicate partially lower connection, and this

connection constitutes cognitive linguistics. Technical

progress has led to historical changes in linguistics, and

cognitive linguistics, like the working system of

computer algorithms, tries to determine how

information undergoes processes in the human mind,

like algorithms. While the connection between artificial

intelligence, anthropology and philosophy is realized

indirectly, linguistics has a direct relationship with all

fields, and cognitology, that is, is the central focus of

the science of human cognition, which forms the basis

of this science. one of the fields: computer science -

creation of programs capable of performing actions

performed by humans; cognitive psychology-

psychological aspects of the cognitive process;

emergence of the theory of generative grammar in

linguistics[1].

The connection between language and thinking is

widely revealed in this field, and now the focus is not

on the structural study of the language, but on the way

information is received, perceived, and new ones

appear in the mind of the user, language or speaker. It

should be noted that the emergence of cognitive

linguistics is connected with the invention of the

computer in the 20th century. representatives made it

possible for linguists to make a new turn within their

discipline, the operation of algorithms on a computer

increased interest in what processes it covers in the

person who is its creator. Cognitive linguistics,

according to Papova and E.S. Kubryakova, is a branch

of linguistics that views language as a general cognitive

mechanism, a cognitive tool of the sign system that

plays an important role in the representation

(encoding) and transmission of information[2].

First of all, it is necessary to dwell on what the symbol

and code are. Academician A. Nurmonov defines

symbols as any representatives of social information.

The sign, considered a unit of semiotics, was studied by

linguists before the emergence of cognitive linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure, a scientist who studied as a first

and made a new turn in linguistics, emphasizes that

there are two sides of the linguistic sign, its material

side (signifier/significant) and its meaning, conceptual

side (signified), they are inseparable from each other.

and one requires the other. For example, if we take the

word "house", its material side is in the form of a word,


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and its meaning or concept side is its image in the

human mind. It is from here that this concept was

embodied in different ways for different people as a

well-known concept. For some, a residential building

comes to mind, while for others, family members, hot

food, a place of happiness, or, on the contrary,

livelihood concerns come to mind. F. Saussure

considers these two sides as psychological

phenomena, and he says not the connection between

the thing and the name, but the connection between

the side of the image or acoustic image (material) and

the side of the concept.[3]

Sh. Safarov in his work entitled Cognitive Linguistics,

while touching on the notion and concept, which is the

result of logical activity, the starting point of these two

terms is related to its perception and the emergence of

a figurative image in the human mind. In the higher

stages, they generalize and abstract to form a single

code for everyone, i.e. a symbolic sign[4]. For example,

at the lower level of human thinking, a book is

understood as an object designed to flow, while at a

higher level, it is information or a general code, such as

a library, knowledge, or a tool for achieving success.

When a flower goes from concept to concept level, it

can cover different meanings, for example, red rose is

symbolic of love, yellow rose is separation, white rose

is symbolic of friendship.

Such views clarify the difference between concept and

concept, but at the same time there is a similarity. The

above-mentioned generalized code does not apply to

the concept, which is the composition of each concept,

but the symbolic signs are reflected in the concept. For

example, a ring is a type of jewelry worn by women

(men) on the fingers, and it is an image in the mind in

the state of the concept, then the ring on the 4th finger

of the hand gives us information about being married,

going to be married, in which the ring as a concept

gives certain information.

Let's find answers to the questions of how the concept

appears and how to express it in words. In our mind,

the object that is happening is distinguished by its

different aspects, and then, by generalization, it is

combined into a known group and a general image is

formed. At the next stage, this image is processed

logically, turns into a concept, before receiving a

linguistic dress, an imaginary model appears in the

human mind, and a method of implementation is

sought in order to realize it, says Sh. Safarov with this

idea divides the note into internal (inner) and external

(external) types, or rather, from these two stages, the

concept moves from human imagination to language

reflection.

Before the verbalization of any concept, it has its own

representation in the human mind and takes different

forms in the speech of the speakers.

In today's anthropocentric linguistics, the concept

concept is gaining importance, and first of all, it is


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necessary to dwell on the meaning and content of the

word concept.

The term concept is one of the most widely used terms

in modern linguistics, despite the fact that it has been

the object of many studies, but it still remains

essentially abstract.

If we look at the history of the word concept, the

ancient Greek scientists Aristotle and Socrates defined

the concept concept and founded the direction that is

considered a classical theory in linguistics. In this, the

concept concept was approached from a philosophical

point of view, and it was believed that there are

legitimate answers to philosophical questions about

the nature and essence of things. It is suggested that

there must be necessary and sufficient conditions

when explaining a concept and that there is a clear

boundary between concepts[5].

D.S. Likhachev, in his article "Conceptosphere of the

Russian language", said Askaldov, who was the first to

study the concept in Russian linguistics, to clarify the

nature of concepts. It is necessary to pay attention to

the fact that it is the most important aspect of

understanding, and he pointed out that it is possible to

see the concept as a substitute. shoots For us, the

concept is defined as a mental formation that replaces

a vague set of objects of a kind in the process of

thinking. D.S. Likhachev cites as an example of this idea

that when a general idea is expressed for a plant

organism, we ultimately mean all the defined set of real

or at least imaginary plants[6]. It is because of this that

the difference between concept and understanding is

clearly felt. Different people have different images of

the concept under the influence of factors such as their

religion, culture, customs, lifestyle, life experience, age

and gender.

The less cultural experience a person has, the poorer

not only his language, but also the "conceptosphere"

of active and passive vocabulary. As the culture of the

nation - its literature, folklore, science, fine arts -

becomes richer, so does the conceptual sphere of the

national language, which is especially related to all the

historical experience and religion of the nation.

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