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Publication details [#12167]
Verkhoturova, Tatyana. 2004. Observability in language (a case study of Russian and English perceptional verbs). Issues in Cognitive Linguistics 1 (2-3) : 14–26. 13 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Russian
Keywords
Place, Publisher
The Russian Cognitive Linguists Association
Abstract
This article deals with the relationship between language and perception. Assuming that the meanings of linguistic constructions depend on how the subject of cognition (the speaker) perceives the world and refers to it, the speaker cannot be separated from the the conceptualiser. The latter is often described in the cognitive paradigm as the Observer; this paper aims to describe the Observer and the phenomenon of observability in general, including the stages and mechanisms of cognition.