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Exercise №3. Basing on the results of your notes of "After" in Exercise 8 prepare 5 minutes report presentation.

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Exercise №1. Complete the text with the right word from a box.

Linguaculturology

Cognitive science

phenomenon

mechanism of transformation

Cognitive linguistics investigates language as ______________________ and codification of it. The aim of this linguistics covers the cognition of the world from one's point of view and ways of appearing of receiving processes, categorization, and classification of it. The term of “Cognitive science” includes learning processes jointly, receiving them and reworking, saving and using, organizing thestructure of knowledge and collection, furthermore, it arranges collection of a certain scientific thought which is joint for forming the mental activity of these structures. _____________________is closely connected with mathematics, logic, philosophy, anthropology and linguistics. However, ___________________is a complex scientific science direction appeared in the basis of inter reaction of linguistics and culturology. This direction investigates interconnection between culture and language, and researches the language as a _________________of culture. It shows the observation of the world in the certain view by the cultural prism and by a certain nation’s mind and culture.
Exercise №2. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or False.
1. “Gender” is considered the main object of genderology, which includes aninternational description of cultures, the roles of male and female in society and their relationship and behavior.

True/False

2. Chris Weedon famously characterized language as ‘the place where actual and possible forms of social organization and their likely social and political consequences are defined and contested.

True/False

3. The term “gender” is considered as one of the problematic concepts in this direction of linguistics.

True/False

4. Yu. Stepanov points out that a ‘correlational’ relationship between sex and gender is usually seen in one of two possible ways: first, that gendered behavior is ‘built on’ to pre-existing sex differences, and, second, that the sex-gender relationship may be arbitrary, but that there will always be gender differences in behavior, which then come to “symbolize” sex.

True/False

5. Genderological analysis of a language can serve in understanding not only its anthropocentric paradigm but also its male and female peculiarities.

True/False