Abstract
The cognitive processes of the human mind are not perceived directly, the information about them can be received through the analysis of their representation in the language means. The article is devoted to the cognitive study of the English syntactic structures with the disjunctive conjunctions used in speech, in the contextual environment. The inherent meaning of alternative which these conjunctions possess is modified under the influence of the lexical-grammatical context. It makes the English syntactic structures containing these conjunctions applicable not only for the description of the situation of choice, but also for the depiction of the situations of deficient knowledge, alternation, distribution, motivation. Due to the neutralization of the inherent meaning of the conjunctions in the context the constructions which contain them can convey in English such mental operations as enumeration, approximation and addition. The analysis of English syntactic structures with the conjunctions reveals the cognitive work of the human mind. The results of the research are useful for the English language acquisition as the syntactic structures with the disjunctive conjunctions help the speaker to achieve the variety of communicative goals.
Highlights
The cognitive approach has become widespread in linguistics as on the one hand it enables to understand better and interpret correctly various language phenomena, on the other hand, the mental operations of our mind are not directly observable, but one can get the information about them analyzing language phenomena
Most types of relations are epistemological in nature since they are not found in the surrounding world, they appear in the human mind being the result of its comprehension of reality
The cognitive study of language units reveals that the human mind comprehends different situations of reality, namely, those of choice, deficient knowledge, alternation, distribution, and motivation, and performs different mental operations, such as enumeration, approximation, and addition by means of the alternative relation which plays a significant role in creating the picture of the world
Summary
The cognitive approach has become widespread in linguistics as on the one hand it enables to understand better and interpret correctly various language phenomena, on the other hand, the mental operations of our mind are not directly observable, but one can get the information about them analyzing language phenomena. The results of these studies show various forms of the interconnection between mind and language, display the role of language phenomena in cognition. Cognitive research of different types of discourse, namely, political [18] media [19] and advertising [20], has become popular as it helps to find out the mental mechanisms of manipulative strategies and use them effectively or, on the contrary, resist them
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