CELEBRITY as a radial category

  • Владислав Валерійович Кукушкін V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Keywords: derivative subcategory, idealized cognitive model, prototype, radial category

Abstract

The article proves that encyclopaedic knowledge actualized by the celebrity lexeme in the English media discourse is structured as a radial conceptual category. The radial conceptual category CELEBRITY is based on the prototype formed by the attributes of a cluster of idealized cognitive models. The prototype attributes motivate the formation of the derivative subcategories viewed as deviations from the central model. 

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СПИСОК ДЖЕРЕЛ ІЛЮСТРАТИВНОГО МАТЕРІАЛУ

1. ET = Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland).

2. G = The Guardian (London, England).

3. FT = Financial Times (London, England).

4. MS = Morning Star (London, England). 5. NI = National Interest [Electronic resource]. – Access : http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=16012: Jan.

6. NL = News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland).

7. NYT = New York Times (New York, the USA). 8. Sn = The Sun (London, England). 9. T = The Times (London, England). 10. WS = Weekly Standard (Washington, the USA).

REFERENCES

Boldyrev, N.N. (2001) Kognitivnaja semantika : kurs lekcij. [Cognitive Semantics: a Course of Lectures]. Tambov: Izd-vo Tamb. gos. un-ta.

Croft, W. and Cruse, D. (2004) Cognitive linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.

Kukushkіn, V.V. (2010) Ob’yektyvatsiya kontseptu ZNAMENYTIST’ u suchasnomu anhlomovnomu hazetnomu dyskursi. Dis. kand. filol. nauk [Instantiation of the Concept CELEBRITY in Modern English Newspaper Discourse. Kand philol. sci. diss.]. Kharkiv. 221 p. (in Ukrainian).

Lakoff, G. (1987) Women, fire and other dangerous things. What categories reveal about mind. Chicago; L.: Univ. of Chicago Press.


Langacker, R.W. (2000) Grammar and conceptualization. Berlin; N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter.

Martynjuk, A.P. (2010) Opyt modusnogo modelirovanija koncepta (na primere koncepta CELEBRITY / ZNAMENITOST’, aktualizirovannogo v anglojazychnom gazetnom diskurse) [A case of the modus modelling of a concept (based on the concept CELEBRITY, actualised in modern English newspaper discourse)]. Kognicija. Kommunikacija. Diskurs – Cognition, Communication, Discourse, 1, 93-100. Available at: http://sites.google.com/site/cognitiondiscourse/home (Accessed 27 September 2015).

Nabokova, I.Yu. (2015) Aktualizatsiya kontseptu PERShA LEDI / FIRST LADY v anhlomovnomu politychnomu dyskursi ZMI : avtoref. dіss. kand. filol. nauk [Instantiation of the concept FIRST LADY in the English political mass media discourse. Cand. philol. sci. abstract]. Kharkiv. 20 p. (in Ukrainian).

SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL

ET – Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland).

G – The Guardian (London, England).

FT – Financial Times (London, England).

MS – Morning Star (London, England).

NI – National Interest. Available at: http://www.nationalinterest.org/
Article.aspx?id=16012: Jan.

NL – News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland).

NYT – New York Times (New York, the USA).

Sn – The Sun (London, England).

T – The Times (London, England).

WS – Weekly Standard (Washington, the USA).
Published
2016-03-07
How to Cite
Кукушкін, В. В. (2016). CELEBRITY as a radial category. The Journal of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: Foreign Philology. Methods of Foreign Language Teaching, (81), 225-229. Retrieved from https://periodicals.karazin.ua/foreignphilology/article/view/5364