FICTIONAL TEXT: PSYCOLINGUISTIC REFLECTION OF CONCEPT

Abstract

The article deals with the perception of the phenomenon of the fictional text, interpreted as a concept, localized in multidimensional fictional text space, in projection of the newest philological disciplines – cognitive and psychological naratology. Proposed theoretical considerations of the perception of the phenomenon of fictional text are in the relationship between scientific entities: the concept, notion, meaning and sense. Now the concept of the fictional text is a key concept of cognitive linguistics, but its content varies considerably in the studies of various scientific schools and individual scholars. The fact is that the concept of the fictional text category is intelligible, unobservable, and this gives a great deal of space for its interpretation. The category of the concept appears today in the studies of philosophers, logicians, psychologists, culturologists, and it carries the traces of all these extra-language interpretations. We define the concept as a discrete mental entity, which is the basic unit of the human code of the person, having an ordered internal structure, which results from the cognitive activity of the individual and carries a comprehensive, encyclopaedic information about an object or phenomenon, on the interpretation of this information by an individual or a public consciousness. Concepts are more appropriately interpreted primarily as units of thinking, not memory, since their main purpose is to provide a process of thinking. They act as custodians of information, but they are units of memory, yet to prove. Concept does not necessarily have a linguistic expression – there are many concepts that do not have a stable name, and their conceptual status is beyond doubt. Consequently, the concept in philology is a meaningful side of a verbal sign, which stands for the notion relating to the mental, spiritual or material sphere of human existence.