Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback
addClaim

This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.

You have already added 0 works in your ORCID record related to the merged Research product.

THE COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE OPPOSITIONS OF ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS IN THE TEXT OF AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT

КОГНИТИВНО-ДИСКУРСИВНЫЕ ОППОЗИЦИИ АНГЛИЙСКИХ ПРЕДЛОГОВ В ТЕКСТЕ ОФИЦИАЛЬНОГО ДОКУМЕНТА
Authors: Khrisonopulo, E.Yu.;

THE COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE OPPOSITIONS OF ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS IN THE TEXT OF AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT

Abstract

В настоящем исследовании предлагается описание контрастивного использования словосочетаний с английском предлогом ‘of’ в официально-деловом дискурсе Комитета всемирного наследия: ‘details of / on the project’, ‘a plan of / for the property’, ‘deterioration of / to historic buildings’. Анализируемые случаи противопоставлений предлогов в структуре словосочетаний демонстрируют их когнитивно-дискурсивную природу. В частности, в работе показано, что предпочтительный выбор одного из предлогов из имеющейся пары предложных единиц обусловлен, с одной стороны, осмыслением объектов и/или явлений, обозначаемых знаменательными словами, и, с другой стороны, - содержанием когнитивных операций, осуществляемых человеком при соотнесении определенным образом осмысленных денотатов знаменательных слов в ходе построения предложного словосочетания. Поскольку процессы осмысления и когнитивные операции обуславливаются конкретными контекстуальными и дискурсивными факторамиб анализируемые случаи контрастивного использования предлогов рассматриваются в качестве когнитивно-дискурсивных оппозиций, в которых актуализируются соответствующие аспекты грамматического значения предлогов.

The present paper suggests an account of alternative uses of phrases with the English preposition ‘of’ in official business discourse of the World Heritage Committee: ‘details of / on the project’, ‘a plan of / for the property’, ‘deterioration of / to historic buildings’. The analyzed cases of alternations of prepositions within these phrases display their cognitive-discursive nature. In particular, it is shown that the choice of one preposition over another one within a phrase is motivated, on the one hand, by mental construal of entities and/or phenomena designated by content words and, on the other hand, - by cognitive operations performed by a conceptualizer in bringing the two construals together in building up a phrase. Since the processes of mental construal and cognitive operations are predetermined by concrete contextual and discursive factors, the alternative uses of prepositions are regarded as cognitive-discursive oppositions that manifest the respective aspects of the prepositions' grammatical meaning.

Russian Linguistic Bulletin, Выпуск 4 (24) 2020, Pages 42-47

Related Organizations
Keywords

grammatical meaning, mental construal, предлог, знаменательное слово, осмысление денотата, когнитивная операция, preposition, content word, грамматическое значение, когнитивно-дискурсивная оппозиция, cognitive operation, cognitive-discursive opposition, discourse, дискурс

  • BIP!
    Impact byBIP!
    selected citations
    These citations are derived from selected sources.
    This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
    0
    popularity
    This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
    Average
    influence
    This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
    Average
    impulse
    This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
    Average
Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback
selected citations
These citations are derived from selected sources.
This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Citations provided by BIP!
popularity
This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Popularity provided by BIP!
influence
This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Influence provided by BIP!
impulse
This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Impulse provided by BIP!
0
Average
Average
Average
Related to Research communities
Upload OA version
Are you the author of this publication? Upload your Open Access version to Zenodo!
It’s fast and easy, just two clicks!