Kognitivní lingvistika, řeč a poezie : (Předběžné poznámky)
Cognitive Linguistics, Speech, and Poetry: Preliminary Remarks

Summary/Abstract: The first two parts of this article outline the context of cognitive and cultural linguistics. It discusses, first, its starting point in empirical realism and anthropocentrism and its conception of the universal and the relative. It then briefly explains the basic concepts and the bases of this approach to language and the human mind: the linguistic picture of the world, corporeality, conceptual metaphor, and categorization (particularly in connection with linguistic meaning). The third and most important part of the article demonstrates, on using examples from the poetry of Holan, Skácel, and Topinka, the stimuli that might link cognitive experience with the conception of the poetic text, and thus aid the interpretation of poetry. This is primarily a matter of connotations. According to the chief representatives of cognitive-cultural linguistics, the Polish scholars Ryszard Tokarski and Anna Pajdzińska, poetry provides ample evidence, from the point of view of semantics, for verbal connotations that are otherwise unregistrable. This implies processes of recategorization and the relativization of normal functional meanings, which are most blatant, in Pajdziúska's terms, in "poetic definitions." Re-evaluation and relativization apply also to normal conceptual schemes. Here, I write about "linking" and "container." The last part of the article concerns the conceptualization of speech, as it may be interpreted on the basis of Miloslav Topinka's collection of verse Krysí hnízdo (Rat Hole).

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