Evolutional mechanisms of cognitive semantics
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https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2016-13-07Keywords:
anagenesis, cladogenesis, cognitive and discursive paradigm, concept types, diachronic cognitive semantics, evolution, involution, methods for analysisAbstract
In this article I reviewed and systematized the basic mechanisms of evolutionary transformations of lexically represented concepts. On the basis of cognitive-discursive research paradigm I suggest methods and algorithm for the diachronic study of cognitive and linguocultural concepts, in particular, concepts of communicative behavior. Within the framework of historical cognitive semantics I summarize the data for diachronic variation of cognitive and linguocultural English concepts and define vectors of their transformations as evolution (anagenesis, cladogenesis), involution or a mixed type development.
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