Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Nov 2022)
OBSERVER AS A COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE SUBJECT OF COGNITION, PERCEPTION AND EVALUATION OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTS
Abstract
The subject matter of the paper is the analyses of communicative acts from the position of the Observer – interpreter. The Observer expresses his/her communicative intentions through the language. In the linguistic conceptualization the Observer can be defined as a perceptive, manipulative and cognitive discursive category combining the act of perception with the evaluation. The focus of research attention is exclusively on the cognitive hypostasis of the Observer. The Observer acts as an analytical tool of conceptual-semantic analysis in various hypostases, reflecting the entire palette of human perception: physical sensations, emotional (affective) reactions, evaluation and mental activities. In many ways, the functioning of the Observer in one role (when the Observer combines the role of the subject of perception and the subject of affective assessment) or another (when he/she acts as an addressee) depends on the nature of the Observed, with the obvious fact that the Observed always takes place when it comes to the Observer.The data analysis is carried out on the English language material. The Observer’s sphere of concepts interacting with the speech units results in different types of language interpretation in the process of communication and cognition. The results of this research can be of certain interest for English pragmatics, English language lexicology and cognitive linguistics studies.
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