Separation and Cohesion: Cognitive Plane of Study (on the Material of French Syntax)

This article focuses on the problem of syntactic separation and cohesion in the new focus of researches: in terms of cognitive analysis. The mechanisms of formation, perception and interpretation of knowledge based on two opposite, by their essence, syntactic categories like separation and cohesion, were investigated on the material of modern French language. It was established that cohesion represents the syntactic structures of classic syntax that exist on the mental level as independent grammatical integrities, as integrated integrities, as schematic models. Based on the principles of logic, normativity, syntactic hierarchy, they form primarily analytical thinking of recipients. Separation, representing syntactic structures of actualizing syntax, is characterized by non"standard syntactic constructions, high expression of utterance, expansion of its informative borders. Based on the principle of language economy, separation is an effective means of information's assimilation. Separate structures develop not only mental, but also emotional sphere of perception and interpretation of utterance by the speaker. We proved that cohesive or separate syntactic structures are activated depending on the cultural and historical period, and in their synthesis, they are the significant factors in the organization, development and evaluation of semantic space of the text in cognitive plane. Keywords: classic syntax, cohesion, actualizing syntax, separation, syntactic structure, emotionality of utterance, syntax of spoken language, cognitive aspect of the analysis, the cognitive process of the recipient, perception, structuring, interpretation of information, logical thinking, sensual and imaginative perception, syntactic synthesis of cohesion and separation.