COGNITIVE-SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION VOCABULARY IN THE SAKHA LANGUAGE
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2022-6-45-51
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
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Issue: 6, 2022
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Pages: 45 — 51
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