Linguistic worldview virtualization exеmplified by K.S. Aksakov’s story «Cloud»

Abstract

"The article approves the idea that the categories of space and time being basic categories of existence and cognition of the world; they form the structure of the worldview and sociocultural human experience and they are expressed in the linguistic worldview form. Investigation of the linguistic worldview of the literary work discourse to find out the way of its virtualization should be considered to be relevant. The aim of the work is to investigate the way of virtualization of the linguistic worldview of the literary work, which immersing us into absolutely different, weird and wonderful reality, causes our mind to perceive the events as virtually existing. Using mental models, language creates representations compared with those that originate from the experience of direct interaction with the world. Finally, they bridge words and the world.Analysis of the modelling of space-temporal relations in linguistic worldview of literary work allows imagining it in the form of complex of real or imaginary spaces – as mental model of space-temporal relations or cognitive map. It was concluded, that virtualization of the linguistic worldview is caused by alignment of mental model of space-temporal relations created by an author and mental model of a perceiving subject. Due to mental models existence in everyone’s mind we perceive the world described in fantastic story as real, imbedding it into our own mental models system to create common semantic field and using metaphor for searching of analogous cognitive structures and patterns as a means of world cognition and reality virtualization."

Keywords

• "perception
• virtualization
• linguistic worldview
• mental model
• representation
• metaphor
• cognitive structure
• image
• comprehension
• cognition