Cognitive-Discursive Modeling of Language Nomination

Abstract

Systemic and structural linguistics has no answer to the question of how one can make new words, as formulated by Prof. L. V. Shcherba. Its methodology strives to distance itself from the human factor and human activity. The present article introduces an analysis of two derivatological concepts. The first one was developed by G. S. Zenkov, a prominent representative of the structural direction in Kyrgyz linguistics. The second belonged to L. A. Araeva, the founder of the Kemerovo derivatological school with its anthropocentric orientation. The processes of knowledge processing are consolidated by means of morphemic, semantic, and syntactic derivation. The national and cultural component of lexical meaning of motivated words, created by morphemic and semantic derivation, develops in a particular cognitive and discursive situation. This situation becomes clear if approached from the standpoint of another language. A language appears, develops, and functions not by the standards of an abstract person, but by those of a particular language user as part of a particular national, cultural, natural, and economic environment that gave rise to a particular ethnos. Consequently, the processes of creating new words cannot be studied abstractly and formally, but only as a response to the requests and challenges of a particular ethnic community.

Keywords

• derivation
• propositional-frame analysis
• typified situation
• human factor
• motivation
• systemic-structural approach
• anthropocentric linguistics