scholarly journals The role of the alternative relation in cognition and the disjunctive conjunctions as a means of its verbalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 11036
Author(s):  
Natalia Sklyarova
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
English Language ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
English Language Acquisition ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
Cognitive Study ◽  
Contextual Environment

The cognitive processes of the human mind are not perceived directly, the information about them can be received through the analysis of their representation in the language means. The article is devoted to the cognitive study of the English syntactic structures with the disjunctive conjunctions used in speech, in the contextual environment. The inherent meaning of alternative which these conjunctions possess is modified under the influence of the lexical-grammatical context. It makes the English syntactic structures containing these conjunctions applicable not only for the description of the situation of choice, but also for the depiction of the situations of deficient knowledge, alternation, distribution, motivation. Due to the neutralization of the inherent meaning of the conjunctions in the context the constructions which contain them can convey in English such mental operations as enumeration, approximation and addition. The analysis of English syntactic structures with the conjunctions reveals the cognitive work of the human mind. The results of the research are useful for the English language acquisition as the syntactic structures with the disjunctive conjunctions help the speaker to achieve the variety of communicative goals.

scholarly journals The distinction between polysemy and homonymy on lexical ambiguity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Restu Resmiyati
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
English Language ◽  
Lexical Ambiguity ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Semantic Ambiguity ◽  
Ambiguous Words ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Multiple Meanings

The majority of words in the English language does not correspond to a single meaning, but rather correspond to two or more unrelated meanings (i.e., are homonymy) or multiple related senses (i.e., are polysemy). It has been proposed that the different types of “semantically-ambiguous words” (i.e., words with more than one meaning) are processed and represented differently in the human mind. Several review papers and books have been written on the subject of semantic ambiguity have investigated the role of the semantic similarity between the multiple meanings of ambiguous words on processing and representation. This paper attempts to identify salient traits of distinctions between the polysemy and the homonymy words in a language and how they form ambiguity. Key words: lexical ambiguity, polysemy, homonymy

scholarly journals The role of self-control in enhancing the educational activities of graduate students on mastering in English

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.YA. Gorodeckaya ◽  
N.A. Rogovaya
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
English Language Acquisition

Self-control is considered as one of the means of monitoring postgraduates’ activity in the English language acquisition, which makes it possible for postgraduates to assess the effectiveness of the techniques and methods of their cognitive activity and to find out the shortcomings and basing on them to correct these shortcomings. The results of three-year experiment aimed at implementation of self-control into postgraduates’ leaning activity are described.

Geometric metaphors in English language

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (07) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Aynur Afsar Guliyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
English Language ◽  
Geometric Figure ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Figurative Meaning ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
High Level

The article is devoted to the study of geometric metaphor in the modern English language. Metaphor quite often can be found both in English and in many other languages. Very often metaphors are associated with the letter, but without noticing it, they often use them in everyday speech. The role of a metaphor in the English language is to diversify speech with turns that have a figurative meaning that gives expressiveness to phrases and sentences. To make English speech not only literate, but also beautiful. Metaphors enrich the language and show a high level of language proficiency. Therefore, when learning English, along with everyday vocabulary, idioms, phrasal verbs, it is not out of place to learn some common beautiful metaphors. The geometric metaphor can be considered an important element of the modern English economic discourse and correspondingly communication, thus it obtains a special status in the frame of cognition. It is understood from the research there are a lot of geometric metaphors and is actively used in the cognitive processes of conceptualization and classification of economic reality. Key words: metaphor, geometric figure, geometric metaphor, sentence, figurative meaning

scholarly journals Cognitive Neuroscience Meets the Community of Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron Keith Barbey ◽  
Richard Patterson ◽  
Steven A. Sloman
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
Information Processing Architecture ◽  
Processing Architecture

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover the biological foundations of the human mind. One goal is to explain how mental operations are generated by the information processing architecture of the human brain. Our aim is to assess whether this is a well-defined objective. Our contention will be that it is not because the information processing of any given individual is not contained entirely within that individual’s brain. Rather, it typically includes components situated in the heads of others, in addition to being distributed across parts of the individual’s body and physical environment. Our focus here will be on cognition distributed across individuals, or on what we call the “community of knowledge,” the challenge that poses for reduction of cognition to neurobiology, the contribution of cognitive neuroscience to the study of communal processes, and the positive role of neuroscience in a pluralistic account of human cognition.

scholarly journals دراسة لنظرية الانتقال الاشاري بوصفة منهجا اسلوبيا في تحليل تأثيرات وجهة النظر في الخطاب السردي

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Ali Abdulilah Gheni
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Cognitive Attitude

Traditionally, most approaches to stylistic analysis are not related to cognitive processes by which readers are engaged and conceptualized to a particular point of view while reading a text. Against this account , emerged through 1980s and 1990s, various stylistic models for identifying categories of point of view in fiction, and this brings a cognitive perspective in analysis of narrative stylistics. Deictic shift theory is an act to demonstrate how readers are completely engaged in narratives, to a degree that they interpret events in narrative as if they were experiencing them from a position within the story world. According to Segal(1995,p15),deictic shift theory (henceforth DST) means that '' the reader often takes a cognitive attitude within the world of narrative and interprets the text from that perspective' 'and this happens as a result of deictic shifts within the narratives that change the deictic center from which the sentences of the text are interpreted. It follows that such changes in the deictic center across the course of a text will result in changes in the point of view that readers will be exposed to(Mclntyre,2006,p92).The present study aims to investigate the role of deictic shift theory as a cognitive perspective to point of view effects in the selected poem written by Seamus Heaney in his famous poem '' Mossbawn'' . The emphasis will be shifted away from narrative techniques towards theconceptual framework that tackles the cognitive processes of both reading and interpretation. However, the study will show how applying DST is an indispensable in tackling stylistic analysis to point of view which develops our understanding of the construction of viewpoints in language.The analysis has shown that the cognitive work of DST is used as a device in the poem in order to arrive at the comprehensive meaning of text. The poet uses different deictic shifts and projection of viewpoints of personal pronoun, locational, and temporal deixis and references which are interrelated between the fictional text world of the poem and the real central world of the reader. Also, it is seen that in cognitive terms there is a shift between the past and the present, a rapid back and forth shift of deictic center and field which is tackled by the reader's perspective

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

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