TOWARDS DEFINING LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE CATEGORIZATION
Keywords:
categorization, categories, cognitive categorization, linguistic categorization, modeling, modelAbstract
The article highlights the main approaches towards understanding the concepts ‘cognitive categorization’, ‘language categorization’, and ‘linguistic categorization’. Modern cognitive linguistics is in need of a methodologically relevant approach to the use of its key concepts such as ‘categorization’ and ‘category’ which are of primary importance to any research domain. Discriminating between cognitive and linguistic categorization makes it possible to clearly specify research objectives and to verify the results of linguistic investigations. In modern cognitive scientific paradigm categorization is viewed as a tool for constructing the knowledge about the world, as well as a powerful means of cognition. Cognitive categorization is directly related to cognitive modeling, and cognitive models. Linguistic categorization, in its turn, focuses on dividing the system of language into the groups of words based on overall taxonomic principles of class division. The article gives reasons for establishing two main approaches to understanding linguistic categorization. On the one hand, linguistic categorization can be treated as a universal means of cognitive and linguistic modeling of knowledge. On the other hand – as the use of existing linguistic (grammatical, syntactic, semantic and conceptual) categories for various research and applied purposes.
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