COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF DISTRESS IN ENGLISH MEDIA DISCOURSE
Keywords:
distress, prototype, situation model, context model, metaphorAbstract
The article deals with the systematization of cognitive approaches to the study of emotions and ways of their application to the study of distress in English media discourse. The prototypical and situational nature of emotional state of distress is grounded in the frames of the theory of prototypes and the theory of conceptual metaphor. The processual / phasal rather than static character of the distress is discovered by having analyzed the partial set of categories through the definitions in lexicographic sources and distribution of the lexeme distress in word combinations taken from a corpus of American English COCA. Methodology to the study of the conceptual structure of distress is developed basing on the terminology of cognitive-psychological approach. It presupposes the reconstruction of the Prototypical Situation Model of Distress and Context Models of Distress. In the paper the connection between the forwarded proposal and the experience of application of the theory of field to the study of emotion concepts is drawn. Beside lexical items, conventional figurative linguistic evidence as well as non-conventional conceptual metaphors take part in the process of restoring the conceptual structure of distress.
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