Interesting Cognitive Logic of Vietnamese and English Perception Verbs

Phuong Nguyen Hoang

doi:10.11648/j.ijll.20170504.12

Abstract

Each of the phenomena is perceived by human in certain specific ways from perception to cognition. The next step is the convert of cognitive information into language codes so that these information can be released to the object of communication, the receiver or the listener. Then, the listener receives codes and decodes them in order to understand the information from which he can perform a reverse process. That communication process must have its rules. To communicate successfully, to have mutual-understanding between objects of communication, we need to have a system of cognitive logic rules. Therefore, in this research paper, the author uses the cognitive linguistics analysis approach to investigate the interesting cognitive logic points of the basic perception verbs both in English (look, see, listen, hear, smell, taste and touch) and in Vietnames (nhìn, nghe, ngửi, nếm, sờ and thấy). For research data, the author inspected and collected 3,946 sentences with perception verbs from two sets of English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English bilingual novels: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Love after war. As a result, what the author has achieved for this research question are how to understand negative cognitive meanings, how to interpret the true-false value of utterances with perception verbs, and some interesting cognitive logic rules we must apply in order to get the exact cognition of the utterances containing perception verbs.

Highlights

Logic is the science of forms and rules of thinking
The point which is quite interesting is the cognitive logic of the perception verbs belongs to both formal logic and informal logic
In the view of cognitive logic, the semantics of the perception verbs depend on the cognitive rules of formal logic and on those of informal logic

Summary

Introduction

Logic is the science of forms and rules of thinking. It studies the essential relationship with regularity between things and phenomena of objective reality as well as between thoughts and ideas in human thinking and reasoning.[4, 5]. The objects of logic are generalized structures and rules of thinking. In the regime of logic, approaches to perceive the world are built They are concepts, judgements, inference methods, stating hypothesis, proving, rejecting, etc. There are laws of words to express, reflect the thinking and receive information. The step is the convert of cognitive information into language codes so that these information can be released to the object of communication, the receiver or the listener.

Negative Cognitive Semantics

The True – False Value

Interesting Cognitive Logic Rules

Conclusion