Cognitive Linguistics

World Picture is never a mirror reflection of the world; it is a certain vision and construction of the world in accordance with the logics of a definite world comprehending.
Getting some experience a person transfers it into definite concepts. The latter form a conceptual system by means of logical mutual connections and relations. The system is constantly being constructed, modified and specified because in the process of the system developing concepts are being changed in our cognition. They can also be modified and specified.


Characteristics of Concept and System of Concepts:
1. Logicality: each concept is logically formed on the ground of the experience a person gets.
2. Mutability (changeableness): each concept getting in definite relations with other concepts can receive some new signs on its periphery. It can change. Then the system having new shades of concepts will change too.

Concept is a core element in World Picture formation (Dr.1).

Image_of_the_World____Reality_Reflection_Picture_of_the_World__(Knowledge_about_the_World)'>Experience Concept System of Concepts Image of the World


Reality Reflection Picture of the World
(Knowledge about the World)


Drawing 1. Steps of forming Picture of the World


Image of the World is a hierarchical structure of cognitive presentations, hypothesis about typical conditions of reality. Being processed in cognition it becomes knowledge about reality.
Picture of the World becomes certain Knowledge about the World, which lays in the basis of an individual and social Cognition.
In the Conceptual Picture of the World there are mutual relations and reciprocal actions of general human, national, ethnic and individual attitude to reality reflected. Its basic element is a concept that can be universal or present a certain concentration of national senses.
In the Language Picture of the World the system of social typical positions, relations and assessments that is formed and realized by the means of National Language is reflected. Its basic element is a national language that directs the process of forming and stipulates some peculiarities of a definite national Language Picture of the World.
As well as Concept is wider than Language unite; Conceptual World Picture is wider than Language one. Though they cannot be opposed as they both form general world understanding caught in World Picture.
Thus, the Picture of the World is understood as a complete, global image of the world that has been the result of the human activity and has resulted in the whole human moral activity. It appears in Human Cognition on the way of His multisided, various contacts with the world.

CONCEPT
LIST OF DEFINITIONS

Dependently on an approach there are peculiarities of defining Concept.