TY - GEN
T1 - Cognitive background of language scales
AU - Timofeeva, Mariya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Language scale is a sequence of alternative words or clauses that are ordered according to lessening of informativeness, intensity or volume of some feature, for instance, the sequence splendid, beautiful, and good form the lexical scale. Scales are rather numerous and intrinsic to every language, they are commonly used for measuring during reasoning and speaking. Similar to other internal components of a language, cognitive aspects of these scales are unobservable directly and may be investigated only indirectly by linguistic, psychological or neurophysiological means. The paper considers the former. After summarizing the current state-of-Art in studying language scales, several observations about cognitive aspects of these linguistic phenomena are discussed. The paper considers semantic and pragmatic aspects of scales, although specially focuses on the latter, particularly on interlingual comparisons and studying accessibility of the components of a scale by the means of associative vocabularies. The main ussie of the paper consists in studying hidden features of language scales by the means of two types of instruments: linguistic corpora and associative dictionaries. Linguistic resources include data from Russian, English, and French languages.
AB - Language scale is a sequence of alternative words or clauses that are ordered according to lessening of informativeness, intensity or volume of some feature, for instance, the sequence splendid, beautiful, and good form the lexical scale. Scales are rather numerous and intrinsic to every language, they are commonly used for measuring during reasoning and speaking. Similar to other internal components of a language, cognitive aspects of these scales are unobservable directly and may be investigated only indirectly by linguistic, psychological or neurophysiological means. The paper considers the former. After summarizing the current state-of-Art in studying language scales, several observations about cognitive aspects of these linguistic phenomena are discussed. The paper considers semantic and pragmatic aspects of scales, although specially focuses on the latter, particularly on interlingual comparisons and studying accessibility of the components of a scale by the means of associative vocabularies. The main ussie of the paper consists in studying hidden features of language scales by the means of two types of instruments: linguistic corpora and associative dictionaries. Linguistic resources include data from Russian, English, and French languages.
KW - accessibility of scales
KW - associative dictionary
KW - clausal scales
KW - cognitive pragmatics
KW - interlingual comparison
KW - lexical scales
KW - linguistic corpora
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079067257&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SIBIRCON48586.2019.8958426
DO - 10.1109/SIBIRCON48586.2019.8958426
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - SIBIRCON 2019 - International Multi-Conference on Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Proceedings
SP - 618
EP - 623
BT - SIBIRCON 2019 - International Multi-Conference on Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 International Multi-Conference on Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, SIBIRCON 2019
Y2 - 21 October 2019 through 27 October 2019
ER -