COGNITIVE SPECIFICS OF LINGUISTIC UNIT SEMANTIC MEANING DEMONSTRATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Abstract

This article reveals the cognitive specifics of demonstrating linguistic unit semantic meaning during foreign language studies. The meaning germinates in the mind based on somatic experience. The meaning of lexical units can be shown using material association, illustration, translation, definition, context, and augmented/virtual/mixed reality. The cognitive specifics are characterized by the reproduction of knowledge, the ascription of direct meaning to a new foreign word, the primacy of denotative meaning over connotative one, the interconnectedness of denotative and connotative meanings, the knowledge of both denotative and connotative meanings for actual discourse, the use of tropes, the modes and code of meaning presentation, direct and vicarious acquisition of meaning, the performance/ observation/ imagination/ naming actions aloud or to oneself, combinatoriality in the simplest way, the number of exposures, form presentation manner, the link of phonological/ syntactic/ conceptual domains, interaction, recursion, experience, context, body-based reasoning, gestalt perception, the domination of image over meaningfulness and the usefulness of a word. Semantization is divided into stages: demonstration, extraction, reproduction, anchoring and maturation.