Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики (Sep 2018)
Metaphorical aspects of imagination. Imagination role in cognitive problem solution at the stage of eye-mindedness
Abstract
The article is devoted to the essential problem – metaphorical aspects of imagination. An individual in the creative process uses experience, knowledge of the previous generations enriching own experience and adding the element of distinctiveness and individuality to the world’s experience. During the process of cognitive problem solution, spatial imagination helps an individual to create mental images without their visualization. At the eye-mindedness stage, the imagination plays a very important role in the cognitive activity of a child and makes its own contribution to the continuous process of the child’s world cognition. Cognizing the reality, communicating with adults a child tries to comprehend the surrounding «metaphorical reality» literally, in his own way and to the extent of his cognitive experience development, referring to his own interpretation and creating new meanings. A child’s cognitive experience is not as rich as an adult’s experience that is why the fantasy element is introduced into the cognitive process. A child compares his inconsiderable in number mental models with the reality objects, simulating his own reality based on the general typical features, «reading» (checking) the known information and filling in the informative gaps with new one. Everything that a child learns forms the basis for his games and stories that help him to appreciate new information. Children are able to build independently some metaphorical constructions, finding new functions for familiar objects, which allow establishing of inter-frame connections possessing heuristic power. Analysis of the subject’s linguistic worldview presented in the literary work fragment allows making the conclusion that metaphor is a universal tool of the intellection and the world cognition in all activity spheres
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