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ABSTRACT
Cognitive linguistics (cognitology) is a branch of linguistics that has been intensively developing in science in recent
decades. Being an interdisciplinary field of research, cognitology considers human cognition of the surrounding world
in relation to natural language. Cognitive linguistics studies language as a cognitive mechanism that plays a role in the
coding and transformation of language. The goal of the cognitive linguistics is to understand how the processes of
perception, categorization, classification, and the comprehension of the World, how knowledge is accumulated.
KEYWORDS
Cognitology, human cognition, perception, categorization.
INTRODUCTION
Cognitive linguistics does fit into the framework of one
science, but lies at the intersection of several
disciplines, which is a characteristic feature of modern
humanitarian knowledge, - it is important to remember
some other related fields, such as psycholinguistics,
sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, biolinguistics, etc.
The interdisciplinarity of cognitive linguistics is
expressed in the active involvement of information and
experimental data from other sciences: primarily from
psychology,
but
also
from
philosophy,
neurophysiology, sociology, political sciences, etc.
Research Article
LANGACKER’S COGNITIVE GRAMMAR
Submission Date:
February 02, 2023,
Accepted Date:
February 06, 2023,
Published Date:
February 11, 2023
Crossref doi:
https://doi.org/10.37547/ijll/Volume03Issue02-01
Sobirova Firuza Urunbaevna
Samarkand State Institute Of Foreign Languages Teacher Of The Department Of English Philology, Uzbekistan
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Volume 03 Issue 02-2023
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International Journal Of Literature And Languages
(ISSN
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03
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01-03
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The term “cognitive” goes back to Latin and further to
Greek roots that is associated with concepts of
knowledge and thinking. Researchers proclaimed its
fundamental principle a connection between language
and cognition. Wherein, cognition covers the complex
of the process of achieving knowledge (cognition) and
its results (knowledge) [1, 35]
The genesis of cognitive linguistics was due not only to
history of linguistics, but also due to the development
of cognitive research and the formation of the so-
called cognitive science.
Trying to define the subject of cognitive science, E. S.
Kubryakova writes that it is a science “about
knowledge and cognition, about the results of the
perception of the world and subject-cognitive activity
of people accumulated in the form of meaningful and
systematized data that somehow represented to our
consciousness and form the basis of mental or
cognitive processes. The definition of cognitive science
which is accepted by the majority is that it is the science
of knowledge representation systems and information
processing, coming to a person through different
channels” [1, 34].
One of the leading cognitive theorists in linguistics is
considered to be Ronald Langacker, who develops a
theory since 1976 originally called space grammar, and
later renamed into cognitive grammar. R. Langacker
formulates principles of cognitive grammar, starting
from those fundamental theses of the generative
theory, with which he fundamentally disagrees. These
are, first of all, statements about the autonomy of
linguistic system, independence of grammar from
vocabulary and the possibility of description values
using the apparatus of formal logic. In Langacker's
opinion, one can clearly see the common platform for
the entire cognitive linguistics [4, 1]:
1.
The language is not self-sufficient and cannot
be described without accounting for cognitive
processes.
2.
grammatical structures should not be
considered as a separate, independent formal system,
since lexicon, morphology and syntax are a single
continuum of symbolic units that are not naturally
subdivided into component parts.
3.
formal semantics based on truth conditions is
not able to adequately describe the meanings of
language expressions.
In Langacker's cognitive grammar, meaning is equal to
conceptualization,
or
mental
experience.
Conceptualization is understood very broad and covers
both existing concepts and new representations, as
well as sensory, kinesthetic, and emotional
impressions, in addition the communicants' awareness
of the social, physical and linguistic context of the
speech situation. The meaning of a language
expression includes how the speaker perceives and
comprehends the corresponding object or situation.
To describe this aspect, the author introduces the
concept interpretations (mental construing). By using
any language expression, or another grammatical
construction, a speaker makes a choice in favor of one
of the possible ways of designating relevant object or
situation. Hence it follows that sentences that present
the same situation in different ways are not
semantically equivalent even if their truth conditions
match up. Functions of word and its various
modifications in the process of word formation, “the
meanings of language units and the motives for their
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insertion into syntactic constructions” [2, 54] are
studied precisely within the framework of R.
Langacker's cognitive grammar. The cognitive
grammar of R. Langacker presents "subjective" view of
meaning,
that
equates
meaning
with
"conceptualization or mental experience" [3, 3].
Cognitive linguistics is wide and varied, and this can be
both a disadvantage (heterogeneity of direction, lack
of a clear platform and a common research agenda)
and advantage. The versatility of cognitive linguistics
allows different researchers to find something “for
themselves” in it.
Cognitive studies of language are of interest and value
not only professional. An important merit of cognitive
linguistics lies in the fact that it makes it possible to
realize the relativity of our values, concepts and social
institutions, the need for the critical analysis, revision,
and adaptation to changing conditions.
Showing that there are different ways of
understanding the same situations, various systems of
morality that govern social life, cognitive linguistics
emphasizes the impossibility of establishing unified
absolute moral principles and criteria and opens the
horizons alternative possibilities and points of view. It
doesn't promise to make us wiser but helps us
understand more profoundly what it means to be
human.
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