THE ROLE OF VISUAL AND AUDITORY PERCEPTION IN SHAPING A PART OF THE LANGUAGE SPATIAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD (BASED ON ENGLISH SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES)

Abstract

The article (written within the framework of the semantic and cognitive approach to language learning) deals with defining the role of visual and auditory perception in shaping the part of the language spatial picture of the world expressed by English spatial adjectives. The article also covers some markers of visual and auditory perception in the language. Polymodal and intersensory ways of object perception are touched upon as well. A conclusion is drawn that visual and auditory types of perception determine linguistic conceptualization of a part of space. The research was conducted on the material of the British variant of English. Modern fiction by British writers served as the sources of the illustrative material, where the English spatial attributes such as adjacent, adjoining, bordering, contiguous, neighboring, close, near, nearby, distant, remote, far, far-off, faraway conceptualize a certain part of space.

Keywords

• слуховое и зрительное восприятие
• дистанционные прилагательные
• полимодальное и интермодальное восприятие объектов
• visual and auditory perception
• spatial attributes
• intersensory and polymodal perception of objects