Foresight: a new approach based on the Z-number cognitive map

Foresight has recently emerged as one of the most attractive and practical fields of study, while being used to draw up a preferable future and formulate appropriate strategies for achieving predetermined goals. The present research aimed at providing a framework for foresight with a primary focus on the role of a cognitive approach and its combination with the concept of fuzzy cognitive map in the environments of uncertainty and ambiguity. The proposed framework consisted of the 3 phases: pre-foresight, foresight, and post-foresight. The main stage (foresight) focused on the role of imagination and intuition in drawing the future in the experts’ minds and depicting their perceptions above perceptions in the form of a fuzzy cognitive map influenced by variables related to the subject under study in order to determine a preferable future. The use of a Z-number concept and integrating it with fuzzy cognitive maps in the foresight-oriented decision-making space, which was mainly saturated with uncertainty and ambiguity, was one of the main strengths of the proposed framework in the current investigation. The present paper focused primarily on the evolution of expert’s knowledge with regard to the topic of foresight. The role of Z-number in various processes, from data collection to illustration, analysis, and aggregation of cognitive maps, was considered for gaining knowledge and understanding into the nature of future. Moreover, an ultimate objective was realized through identifying, aggregating, and selecting the variables from each expert’s perspective and then the relationship between each variable was determined in the main stage of foresight. Finally, the proposed framework was presented and explicated in the form of a case study, which revealed satisfactory results.

CONCEPTUALIZING TRAUMA IN JEWELL PARKER RHODES’ TOWERS FALLING: A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO 9/11 TRAUMA METAPHOR

Este artículo analiza la representación metafórica del estrés traumático en la obra de Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling (2016) desde un enfoque estilístico. El estudio aplica principios de la Teoría de la Metáfora Conceptual (CMT) de Lakoff & Johnson (1980) a las metáforas seleccionadas de la novela. El análisis identifica dos tipos de metáforas relacionadas con el trauma. El primero, las metáforas traumáticas de Deja, en las que aparecen dominios Fuente como MÁSCARA DE HALLOWEEN, CONGELAR, o ROBOT. El Segundo, el estrés traumático de Pop es expresado utilizando estructuras conceptuales de dominios Fuente de naturaleza variada, tales como TORMENTA, TERREMOTO, PESADILLA, MORIR y GEMIDO. El estudio concluye que las metáforas que conceptualizan el estrés traumático en la obra en cuestión son EL CUERPO ES UN RECIPIENTE DE EMOCIONES y EL TRAUMA ES UN RECIPIENTE.

Linguacognitive and Linguoculturological Features of the Opposition Concept Good and Bad in Different Structural Languages (In English and Uzbek)

Annotation: The relevance of this study is due to its connection with the modern direction of language learning - cognitive linguistics, which makes it possible to identify the specifics of the representation of human knowledge, including evaluative ones, in the semantics of linguistic units. The prospect of the cognitive approach in studying the processes of evaluative conceptualization and evaluative categorization is explained by the fact that it makes it possible to assess the role of a person in the perception and evaluation of the surrounding reality and the formation of evaluative values, taking into account the interaction of cognitive and linguistic factors. Accordingly, the evaluative categories "good" and "bad" in this study are considered from the point of view of the mental processes of evaluative conceptualization and evaluative categorization and their refraction in linguistic meanings. Keywords: concept, language, linguacultural study, linguacultural concept "bad", linguacultural concept "good", linguistic materialization of a concept, linguacultural research.

Modern aspects of the culturally related process of teaching and education at the university in the context of the socio-cognitive approach

В статье представлены аргументы важнейшей концептуальной позиции социо-когнитивного подхода, которая основа на представлениях о том, что в культуросообразном процессе обучения и воспитания современный человек, сохраняя свою культурную идентичность, имеет и развитые качества адаптивности к самореализации в глобальном мире. Описана и прокомментирована матрица, отражающая особенности освоения ценностей в современном поликультурном пространстве. Определены наиболее значимые аспекты культуросообразного процесса обучения и воспитания в университете, включая формирование комплекса внешних и внутренних условий, определяющих естественную позитивную культурную идентификацию студентов, культуросообразное воспитание студентов, выстраивание структуры образовательного процесса с опорой на поддержку в студентах мотивированного включенного познания, моделирование корпоративной академической культуры и профессионального поведения, расширение гуманитарного ядра содержания образования. The article presents the arguments of the most important conceptual position of the socio-cognitive approach, which is based on the idea that in a culturally consistent process of education and teaching, a modern person, while maintaining cultural identity, also has developed qualities of adaptability to self-realization in the global world. Described and commented on the matrix of mastering the totality of values in the modern multicultural space. The most significant aspects of the culturally related process of teaching and education at the university have been identified, including the complex of external and internal conditions development that determine the natural positive cultural identification of students, culturally related education of students, building the structure of the educational process based on support in students of motivated included cognition, modeling corporate academic culture and professional behavior, expanding the humanitarian core of the content of education.

The precedent context of Russian mass media discourse

The role of precedent phenomena in the media space, in the processes of text generation and meaning formation of the media text is studied. Today, the media are modelling the reality. It may differ from the reality as it is, which is not reflected, but presented through diverse interpretations. In interpreting a statement/message, a significant role belongs to precedent phenomena and the underlying knowledge structures. The problems of the media text, a socially significant communicative environment of our time, determined the relevance of the research. The purpose of the study is to characterize the role of precedent units in interpreting the media text (at the level of meaning and significance). The materials of the research are Russian newspapers, the Newspaper Corpus of the Russian Language, the National Corpus of the Russian Language, and internet sources in Russian. The authors used methods of the discursive level, discourse analysis of precedent phenomena, taking into account their extra-linguistic dimension; the cognitive projection of the study assumed linguo-cognitive analysis and linguo-cognitive modeling as modeling the structure of meaning, text formation and sense formation based on precedent units. The study provides a discourse analysis of precedent phenomena taking into account their extralinguistic dimension and a liguocognitive analysis in order to model additional meanings and the structure of the meaning of precedent units. The cognitive approach identified the role of extralinguistic knowledge in forming the meaning of the text and the precedent unit. Thematized (invariant) knowledge shared by communicants is the key to the successful interpretation of the precedent unit and the functional effectiveness of the media text. Prospects: in the future, it seems promising to study the corpus of precedent units relevant to professional and citizen journalism, their structure, differences, spheres of functioning, as well as modeling the meaning of precedent units in social networks, memes, and the blogosphere.

The Objectification of European Identity in the Treaties and in European Institutions’ Declarations

This paper explores some aspects of the scientific study of creativity by focusing on intentionalattempts to create instances of linguistic humour. We argue that this sort of creativity canbe accounted for within an influential cognitive approach but that said framework is not arecipe for producing novel instances of humour and may even preclude them. We start byidentifying three great puzzles that arise when trying to pin down the core traits of creativity,and some of the ways taken by Cognitive Studies in this quest. We then consider what we call‘creative humour’, which exhibits the core features of the aforesaid creativity. We then explorehow a key cognitive approach to human communication can account for creative humour.We end by drawing lessons and highlighting limitations to cognitive approaches to creativity.

Creativity, Humour, and Cognition

This paper explores some aspects of the scientific study of creativity by focusing on intentionalattempts to create instances of linguistic humour. We argue that this sort of creativity canbe accounted for within an influential cognitive approach but that said framework is not arecipe for producing novel instances of humour and may even preclude them. We start byidentifying three great puzzles that arise when trying to pin down the core traits of creativity,and some of the ways taken by Cognitive Studies in this quest. We then consider what we call‘creative humour’, which exhibits the core features of the aforesaid creativity. We then explorehow a key cognitive approach to human communication can account for creative humour.We end by drawing lessons and highlighting limitations to cognitive approaches to creativity.

Information and analytical center in the context of development of modern technology of scientific communication

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the information and analytical center of a highereducational institution in the context of the development of modern technology of scientific communication in Ukraine. Methodology. The article uses a cognitive approach to the concept of “information and analyticalcenter”, which allowed us to identify its basic essential characteristics and determine the principles offunctioning and development of the information and analytical center as a project group, the activity of whichis aimed at the evolution of information support of domestic science and education, as well as the formationInformation culture skills of employees, students and faculty of universities. In the context of the specifics ofthe study, general scientific methods were applied, in particular, analogies, abstractions, system analysis, aswell as an informational, descriptive method and a theoretical generalization method. Scientific novelty. Thespecifics of the activities of the information-analytical center as a structural unit of the university; traced thetransformation of the library of a higher educational institution into an intellectual center; traditional andinnovative functions, directions, as well as methods of this project group, were identified and analyzed; Theperspective of the functioning of the university’s information and analytical center in the domestic socioculturalspace is described. Conclusions. A study of the specifics of the information and analytical center of a domestichigher educational institution of the XXI century revealed that the implementation of organizational andmethodological support and the use of innovative technologies in the process of managing the scientific andeducational activities of a university, in particular, the introduction of innovative methods and informationtechnologies, the formation of a register of structural units, scientific groups and individual scientists, aswell as calculating their ranking, cataloging journals, identifying groups of scientists with excellent potentialand competencies, etc., in order to optimize the management of the scientific potential of the university andincrease its rating and publication activity – a priority result for these project groups. The development ofmodern technologies of scientific communication on the basis of the information and analytical center ofa higher educational institution is positioned as a promising trend - libraries of domestic universities areconstantly improving their own services in order to develop information infrastructure, positive changes, andadequately provide research results.Keywords: information and analytical center, higher educational institution, science, modern technologies,publication activity.