D. U. Ashurova m. R. Galieva cognitive linguistics

Anthropocentric paradigm – a theoretical framework concerned with the problem of “the human factor” in language, his mental and cognitive activity, the linguistic world picture, representing universal and national-specific values, national worldview.
Anthropocentrism means that a priority role in the process of language functioning is assigned to the human, his knowledge, experience and all kinds of cognitive activity. In other words, language is studied in its multiple relations to the linguistic personality, his mind, intellect, knowledge
Categorization – a mental process of taxonomic activity, regulated presentation of various phenomena classified according to their essential, category characteristics.
Сlassiсal thеory of categorization - thе widеly aссеptеd theory of thе way humans сatеgorisе the world phenomena. According to this theory сonсеptual and linguistiс сatеgoriеs havе “a dеfinitional struсturе”, i.e. all members of the category should have a sеt of nесеssary characteristics suffiсiеnt for the catеgory mеmbеrship.
Cognition – a mental process of learning and acquiring knowledge, its conceptualization and categorization.
Cognitive Grammar is the theoretical framework which deals with the grammatical categories, units, and constructions in their relationships to the processes of the world perception and cognition.
Cognitive Linguistics – a branch of linguistics which regards language as a cognitive mechanism of representing, storing and transmitting knowledge layers. It is concerned with the study of conceptual structuring in language, the relationships between linguistic choices and mental processes, human experience and their results – knowledge.
Cognitive metaphor one of the fundamental processes of human cognition, a specific way of conceptualizing reality ba­sed on the mental process of analogy and knowledge transfer from one conceptual field into another.
Cognitive science – is the interdisciplinary science emerged at the interface of psychology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, computer science, neuroscience, phylosophy. It studies the mind and its processes, the organization of knowledge in the human’s mind, i. e. the functions of cognition and systems they represent; as well as problems connected with perception, memory, attention, reasoning, language and emotion.