Linguistic picture of a community: between cognition and creation Cover Image

Tabloul lingvistic al unei comunităţi: între cunoaştere şi creaţie
Linguistic picture of a community: between cognition and creation

Author(s): Elena Lacusta
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: language; linguistic picture of the world; semantic field; phraseological unit; associations of words; reaction stimulus

Summary/Abstract: Language is created by man depending on his specific way of seeing the world. However, the language gives to the man a certain picture of the world, thus orienting his cognition process.The present article proposes two ways of setting up this picture, based on two complementary relations: man - language - reality (world) and man - reality (world) - language. Those relations are recognized in the words and the configuration of semantic fields, in the possibility of combining the units in the act of speech, in the expressive marked words, phraseological units as well as in the associative relations between words that speakers do.

  • Issue Year: 23/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 17-22
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian