Open AccessSubstances that objectify the SUBSTANCE concept and models for their creation
Author(s) -
Ksenia E. Lukina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neofilologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-5868
pISSN - 2587-6953
DOI - 10.20310/2587-6953-2020-6-21-67-75
Subject(s) - cognition , objectification , relevance (law) , process (computing) , computer science , linguistics , matrix (chemical analysis) , psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , philosophy , materials science , neuroscience , political science , law , composite material , operating system
We consider English substitutes which represent the knowledge of substances. The relevance of the study is provided by the fact that the cognitive basis of substitutes, derived from adjectives, hasn’t been the subject of the study yet. The aim of this work is the cognitive modeling of English substitutes, the description of the field of knowledge that gets objectification through substitutes. The analysis material is provided by 35 examples selected by the sampling method from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, The Free Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary. During the analysis a set of analysis methods is used among which a relatively new method of cognitive-matrix analysis is presented. As the result of the provided study it is established that the structure of the knowledge, objectified by English substitutes, derived from adjectives, can be presented as a private cognitive matrix that includes the core (the SUBSTANCE concept) and a number of cognitive contexts. Conceptual derivation is defined as the main cognitive process providing substantivation of adjectives. The definitive analysis of the considered English substitutes allowed us to identify their derivational meanings which are related to the propositional cognitive models. It was revealed that the formation of the considered substitutes is carried out by propositional cognitive models of two types.