RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC BULLETIN 1 (17) 2019
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GENERAL LINGUISTICS (UDC 81-1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2019.17.1.2
КОГНИТИВНАЯ ЛИНГВИСТИКА КАК РАЗВИТИЕ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ ФОРМАЛЬНОЙ
Научная
статья
Колесов В.В. *
Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, Санкт-Петербург, Россия
* Корреспондирующий автор (prof.Kolesov[at]gmail.com)
Аннотация
В статье описаны этапы и направления развития теоретической лингвистики в трех проекциях: традиционной
формальной, современной американской и современной русской, у последней - в трех направлениях: контенсивная,
когнитивная и концептуальная лингвистики. Показаны переходы от одного типа к другому и парадигматическая
завершенность
всех указанных программ, поскольку каузальный ряд последовательных преобразований (условие –
причина – цель) закончен, и проблема нуждается в создании новой парадигмы.
Ключевые слова: формальная лингвистика, ментальная лингвистика, контенсивная, когнитиввная,
концептуальная грамматики, семантическая константа, каузальный ряд.
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AS A DEVELOPMENT OF FORMAL LINGUISTICS
Research article
Kolesov V.V. *
Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
* Corresponding author (prof.Kolesov[at]gmail.com)
Abstract
The paper describes stages and lines of development of theoretical linguistics in three projections: traditional formal one,
contemporary
American one, and contemporary Russian one, with the discussion of the latter including three schools:
contensive, cognitive and conceptual linguistics. Transitions from one type to another are described, as well as the
paradigmatic completeness of all programmes mentioned, since the causal sequence of successive transformations (condition -
cause - purpose) has
been completed, and the problem now requires a new paradigm.
Keywords: formal linguistics, mental linguistics, contensive,
cognitive, conceptual grammars, semantic constant, causal
sequence.
I am going to discuss something that is, in general, well known, even if it has not yet become fully established in the minds
of many scholars and has been constantly debated as an arguable issue within the scope of scientific knowledge. I would like to
address the question whether contemporary linguistics represents a continuation of the traditional approach or it is a kind of a
“revolution” in cognition, as some are too hasty to claim. My answer is: here we have a good example of continuous cognition
aimed at revealing the “mysteries of language” within the infinitely evolving system of transitions from the simple (external) to
the complex (deeply internal) specifically in the field of language knowledge. The logical sequence representing the change of
linguistic forms is given as an approximation to understanding the essence of the living language
in its anthropological
dimension.
Let us start with comparing the key differences existing between the formal and mental linguistics in their extreme,
invariant differences, without indicating the gradations and nuances present in the works of separate researchers (in order not
to increase the number of references, I am going to give below a collective summary of the distinctions, extracted from various
works on cognitive and formal linguistics).
