Open AccessLanguage and Culture: Within the Four Dimensions
Author(s) -
Вера Заботкина
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kritika i semiotika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2307-1753
pISSN - 2307-1737
DOI - 10.25205/2307-1737-2021-1-94-106
Subject(s) - conceptual blending , linguistics , cognition , space (punctuation) , cognitive linguistics , computer science , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , neuroscience
The article concentrates on the interaction between the four dimensions of language space (Yu. S. Stepanov) and four mental spaces involved in the contact of two cultures. We argue that all four dimensions of language (semantic, pragmatic, syntactic and cognitive) are activated in the interaction between cultures. The main emphasis is on the cognitive/conceptual line studied through the lens of conceptual blending. We distinguish three levels of conceptual integration. We hold that at every level the mechanism of interactive alignment is at work. It ensures that interlocutors operate on common representations underlying semantic, syntactic and pragmatic linguistic structures of the two cultures in contact.