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

Conceptual world picture  a global image of the world and its essential features reflected in the individual’s mind as a result of his spiritual activity.
Conceptualization  a mental process of meaning construction and concept formation in the individual’s mind, one of the main processes of the human cognitive activity connected with composing knowledge structures on the basis of text data and background information, mechanisms of inferences, making conclusions, decoding implicit information.
Emergence structure is new meanings appearing in the blend as a result of integration of the two domains –the target and source domains. It contains information which is more than the sum of its component parts.
Family resemblance - the members of one category can be united into one group on the basis of only some similar features, other features being quite different
Foregrounding  a cognitive principle of distributing information in the text; it marks out the most essential, relevant fragments of the text, thus guiding its interpretation. The following types of foregrounding are distinguished: convergence of stylistic devices, coupling, defeated expectancy, “strong” positions of the text, contrast.
Frame  a hierarchical structure of linguistic data representing a stereotyped situation. It consists of two levels: the upper level is the name of the frame; the lower level consisting of subframes, terminals, slots and subslots, contains concrete information about the situation in question.
Frame semantics – a trend of Cognitive Linguistics which deals with the study of words and corresponding concepts hierarchically structured in a frame, representing stereotype situations. Frame semantics is the semantics of understanding, it is aimed to explain the relations between meanings and their corresponding concepts and reveal new implicit information.
Generic space provides abstract information common to both input spaces. The importance of generic space is that it can provide the concrete basis for analogy (comparison based on similarity) between the source and target domains. It generalizes over what is common to input spaces and indicates correspondences between conceptual domains.
Gestalt (shape, form) – unсonsсious pеrсеptual mесhanisms to сonstruсt wholеs or gеstalts out оf an inсomplеtе pеrсеptual input. This theory attempts to describe how people tend to organize visible elements into groups or unified wholes.
Iconicity is defined as relations of a certain similarity between the verbal sign and its denotate, i.e. logical order of event sequence as well as the succession of homogeneous sentences. There are three principles of iconicity: 1) iconic sequencing; 2) iconic proximity; 3) iconic principle of quantity.
Inference – a mental process by which a conclusion is inferred from multiple observations; the cognitive interpretation of textual data aimed to get new information, exert additional conceptual senses and draw some conclusions about the conceptual system of the whole text.
Information is understood as knowledge represented and transferred by language units in the process of communication. Information can be subdivided into factual, subtextual and conceptual; cognitive and contextual; stylistic and pragmatic; old (given, known) and new (unknown).