Sociocultural Commitment of Cognitive Linguistics via dimensions of context

Autores

  • Nikolay N. Boldyrev Boldyrev Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Olga Georgievna Dubrovskaya Tyumen State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p173

Resumo

The paper explores basic properties of language that can be explained by appealing to its main functions, namely, cognitive, communicative, and interpretive. Although the irst two functions have always been recognized, it is only recently that the third one has been outlined (see Boldyrev, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). Boldyrev claims that linguistic interpretation reveals static and dynamic processes of cognition shaping overall collective and individual knowledge of language speakers. Viewed from this perspective, linguistic interpretation involves

selection, classiication, and evaluation within contexts of knowledge that language speakers acquire as members of societies and cultures. hese contexts are dependent on metaconcepts –Roles, Stereotypes, Values, Norms, Space, Time, Language Performance – that regulate language use. his paper examines static vs. dynamic, collective vs. individual and the metaconceptual dimensions of contexts of knowledge to suggest that they underlie
the Sociocultural Commitment of Cognitive Linguistics.

Biografia do Autor

Nikolay N. Boldyrev Boldyrev, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Nikolay N. Boldyrev is Honoured Scholar of Russian Federation, Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Linguistics at Tambov State University
named ater G.R. Derzhavin, where he conducts research, teaching, and outreach work. Nikolay Boldyrev has worked at analyzing and elaborating the heory of
Linguistic Anthropocentricity on a holistic methodological basis. He currently coordinates ‘he Russian Cognitive Linguists Association’ and is Editor-in-Chief
of Issues of Cognitive Linguistics

Olga Georgievna Dubrovskaya, Tyumen State University

Olga G. Dubrovskaya is Assistant Professor at Tyumen State University. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and intercultural communication.

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2016-01-26

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