Cutting- edge science

August | 2020
CUTTING- EDGE SCIENCE
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF COGNITIVE SEMANICS
Mavlonova Hilola Husanovna
Master of Samarkand state institute of foreign languages
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Abstract: The article is devoted to the terms of central assumptions of cognitive semantics.
Key words: cognitive semantics, conceptual structure, semantic structure
Cognitive semantics started during the 1970s as a response against the objectivist
world-view assumed by the Anglo-American convention in reasoning and the related
methodology. Leonard Talmy, one of the first pioneers of cognitive linguistics during the
1970s, portrays cognitive semantics as follows: "Research on cognitive semantics is
research on conceptual content and its organization in language" (Talmy 2000). Cognitive
semantics commonly have a different set of foci and interests. There are various princi ples
that collectively describe a cognitive semantics approach. In this article I would like to
represent four fundamental assumptions of cognitive semantics which are viewed as
outcomes of the two commitments such as "Generalization Commitment" and "Cognitive
Commitment". The assumptions are listed below:
1. Conceptual structure is embodied (the "embodied cognition thesis").
2. Semantic structure is conceptual structure.
3. Meaning representation is encyclopedic.
4. Meaning construction is conceptualization.
Conceptual structure is embodied. An essential concern for psychological semanticists
is the idea of the connection between conceptual structure and the outer universe of
sensory experience. In other words, psychological semanticists set out to investigate the
idea of human communication with and awareness of the external world, and to fabricate
a hypothesis of conceptual structure that is consonant with the ways in which we
experience the world. One thought that has risen trying to clarify the idea of conceptual
organization based on communication with the physical world is the embodied cognition
thesis. As we saw, this theory holds that the nature of conceptual organization emerges
from substantial experience, so part of what makes conceptual structure significant is the
real involvement wherein it is linked.
Semantic structure is conceptual structure. This guideline states that language refers to
concepts in the brain of the speaker as opposed to objects in the outside world. In other
words, semantic structure (the meanings routinely connected with words and other
linguistic units) can be compared with concepts. These meanings related with words are
semantic concepts or lexical concepts: the ordinary structure that conceptual structure
requires so as to be encoded in language. In any case, the case that semantic structure
can be equated with conceptual structure does not imply that the two are indistinguishable.
Rather, cognitive semanticists claim that the implications associated with words, for
instance, structure just a subset of possible concepts.
There are two significant admonitions that follow from the rule that semantic structure
represents to a subpart of conceptual structure. Firstly, it is critical to mention that
cognitive semanticists are not asserting that language identifies with ideas interior to the
psyche of the speaker and nothing else. This would prompt an outrageous type of
subjectivism, in which concepts are separated from the world that they identify with
(Sinha 1999). The second caveat is related to the idea of semantic structure. It is accepted
so far that the meaning related with words can be de?ned but word meanings, which
we are calling lexical concepts, cannot directly be de?ned. For this reason, cognitive

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