Cancel culture: cognitive mechanisms of meaning transmission in media discourse
... unified conceptual-cognitive mechanism facilitating the transmission, consolidation, and normalisation of axiological meanings in the media sphere. Drawing on contemporary English-language media discourse, the study identifies and analyses several cognitive mechanisms underlying the construction, interpretation, and stabilisation of meaning within cancel culture narratives. These include conceptual framing, which structures discourse through binary oppositions and evaluative schemata; scripts, ...
The cognitive model of ‘NARCISSISM’ as represented in Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray
This article aims to describe the linguistic features of explicating the cognitive model of ‘NARCISSISM’ in Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Methodologically, the study draws on cognitive salience theory, dealing with elements such as trajectory and landmark when analysing the verbalisation of the model ...
Existential dimension of fear in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Fear”
... particular attention to the short story “Fear”. The methodological framework combines the principles of New Criticism — treating the literary text as a self-sufficient structure featuring an unreliable narrator — with approaches drawn from cognitive ontology. In addition, the analysis engages philosophical conceptions of fear developed by S?ren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as the Christian understanding of fear articulated in the Patristic tradition. ...
Affect, symbolization, and “practices of the Self”
Based on some of the states of Sergey Zenkin’s article, I describe the relationship between affect and symbol. Affect has two sides — cognitive and non-cognitive. The latter manifests itself in unconscious reactions. Conscious affect is regulated by the communicative situation and the sociocultural environment. Sergey Zenkin describes two systems of meaning circulation. The first ...
Linearity and compositionality in the semantics of binomial stable constructions
... expressions in Russian. The analysis focuses on the interaction between two key parameters of their semantic organisation: linearity and compositionality. Linearity is understood not merely as a formal property of syntactic word order, but also as a cognitive mechanism that shapes the perception and interpretation of meaning. Compositionality is defined as the extent to which the overall meaning of a construction can be predicted from the meanings of its constituent elements. The study demonstrates ...
Wanderings in Syllogistic Figures: On Kant’s Possible Cognitive Syllogistics
... cognitive-psychological implications. These three perspectives on his conclusions are practically undifferentiated. The first part of this article discusses the logical and ontological-gnoseological content of the treatise in order to reveal the prerequisites for the cognitive interpretation of syllogisms. The second part is an attempt to explicate the treatise’s cognitive content, i.e. a systemic representation of the cognitive properties of syllogisms, as understood by Kant. Kant’s syllogism is characterised ...