JĘZYKOWY OBRAZ ŚWIATA A NIEKTÓRE ZAŁOŻENIA KOGNITYWIZMU
THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD AND SOME ASSUMPTIONS OF COGNITIVISM

Summary/Abstract: One of the basic tasks in the study of the linguistic picture of the world is to shape a word's semantic definition in such a way as to reveal how the word is or may be understood in a particular context. In the paper, a model of an open cognitive definition capable of capturing all loose connotations is proposed. On the basis of Polish colour terms, a principle of mutual motivation (predictability) of semantic components is presented. The principle consists in reconstructing the inner hierarchy of semantic components and establishing semantic interrelationships among them. The prototypical colour template influenced a multidirectional development of semantic connotations and motivated successive transformational chains specified to various degrees. Hence the global interpretational frame of a lexical unit consists of a cluster of specific complementary subframes. Each of the postulated semantic components either motivated or was motivated by other components of the frame.

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