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COGNITIVE-SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION VOCABULARY IN THE SAKHA LANGUAGE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2022. Issue 6 (224). P. 45-51

Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of linguistic units that verbalize the category of visual perception in the Sakha language in the cognitive-semiotic aspect. The study of major categories, such as perception, is one of the important objectives of modern anthropological linguistics, in the center of which is a person as a cognitive-perceptual subject, the functions of his cognitive (perceptual) system and the world of human experience. Material and methods. The research material used is the dictionaries of the Sakha language, the corpus of the Sakha language, literary works. The authors implement a cognitive-semiotic approach based on modern interdisciplinary theories of perception. The representation of the category of visual perception in the Sakha language is considered in three main perspectives – semantic, syntactic and metaphorical. Results and discussion. The article presents a detailed description of the Sakha language vocabulary related to the verbalization of the process of visual perception. Through such vocabulary, the speaker sets a variety of parameters of perception: spatial, temporal, qualitative, evaluative, expressive and modal. Also, the syntactic features of visual perception lexicon are considered, namely, significant combinations of the nuclear verb kör with adverbs characterizing the process of visual perception and expressing the observer’s evaluation. Conclusion. The data obtained indicate that in most cases the lexemes of visual perception serve to denote not only the actual process of perception, but have a huge signemic potential covering different spheres of human activity. The leading parameter, as shown by cognitive-semiotic analysis, is evaluative. Almost every lexeme of the Sakha lexicon contains a personal assessment of not only the process, but also the participants of visual perception. The vocabulary of visual perception thus plays a huge role in cognition and signification of the world. What is specific to the Sakha language is that visual vocabulary performs a modal-expressive function and carries a huge amount of information about the attitude of the speaking subject to the participants of the process of visual perception, about the evaluation of the process itself and the situation as a whole.

Keywords: perception, cognition, semiotics, visual perception, linguistic view of the world, semiotic landscape, parts of speech, phrase, parameter, the Sakha language

The cognitive structure of the verb denoting auditory perception Ihit in the Sakha language // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024. Issue 1 (231). P. 87-96

The article provides a cognitive-semiotic analysis of the semantic structure of the verb of auditory perception iһit in the Sakha (Yakut) language. As an index sign, auditory perception is considered from the point of view of semiotics, and as a complex cultural symbol, it is studied by methods of cognitive linguistics. Auditory perception as a means of perceiving and signifying the world has specific methods of representation in the Sakha language; their cognitivesemiotic description is the objective of the article. The research material was taken from the Large Explanatory Dictionary of the Yakut Language, edited by P. A. Sleptsov. The corpus of examples was borrowed from the dictionary entries of the same dictionary. They mainly relate to artistic discourse, the author which is given. Data from the online translation dictionary https://sakhatyla.ru/ were also used. The work displays a cognitive-semiotic approach, which implies a description of the semantic structure of the verb under study in the context of semiotics and cognitive science, analyzing the contexts in which we consider the representation of the category of perception as a cultural symbol of the Sakha ethnic group. The cognitive structure of the verb of auditory perception iһit in the Yakut language has a large number of conceptual features that verbalize various parameters of both auditory perception itself and, as a result of the development of figurative meanings in the process of speech production, many manifestations of the external and internal world of a person. As the cognitive-semiotic analysis of the semantic structure of the verb iһit has shown, it implements the following conceptual features in various contexts: controllability/uncontrollability, shorttermism, mentality, mediation, confident knowledge, readiness, obedience, conviction, etc. The following parameters of auditory perception, implemented by with the verb iһit in phraseological units: temporal, spatial, qualitative, modal. The data obtained indicate that auditory perception in the Sakha linguistic view of the world is closely connected with the mental sphere of a person, since the central feature in the cognitive structure of the verb iһit is the conceptual attribute bil “to know, to find out.” Auditory perception in the Sakha language is, first of all, recognition.

Keywords: auditory perception, cognition, semiotics, human world, linguistic view of the world, verb, semantics, parameter, Sakha (Yakut) language