doi:10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.32

CONCEPTUALISATION OF TASTE IN THE CONTEXT OF COGNITIVE RESEARCH: POLYMODALITY, INTERMODALITY, SYNAESTHESIA

Research article

Nurutdinova A. R.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.32

Issue: № 1 (29), 2022

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Nurutdinova A. R.

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Abstract

A fundamental postulate in linguistic science is that language divides the world in its own way, i.e. it possesses a particular way of being conceptualized. Metaphorical and metonymic transpositions are the main forms of conceptualization, which are analyzed as cognitive mechanisms at the basis of the sensory cognition. The article deals with the taste senses conceptualization on the basis of analysis taste by means of which the object features are described with the account of metaphorical and metonymic transpositions. The language is an ideal instrument of organizing reality, it defines its concrete contours through conceptualization. Due to the existence of an inseparable connection between a person (the cognitive experience bearer) and the language verbalization, the traditional framework of linguistic research has been expanded. The presented research paper is a study of lexical semantics, implemented in the framework of the cognitive approach, and is devoted to the conceptualization analysis of taste sensations and gustatory perception. By describing the semantics, it is possible to have access to the conceptualization of gustatory sensations valuation in human consciousness. An important aspect in the taste conceptualization is the fixation of the perception type, since information about taste features is perceived audibly and visually, and can also come through olfactory, tactile sensory channels. The purpose is to reveal cognitive bases of taste sensations conceptualization and verbalization (phenomena of polymodality, intermodality (synaesthesia). Object of study - cognitive-semantic mechanisms and ways of reality fragments conceptualization, which form the gustatory sensations visualization process. The further research may include the study of semantics of similar groups, but not identical meaning, denoting perceptual taste modus in order to identify common and differential features, as well as analysis of mechanisms of taste sensation conceptualization in different discourse types.

Keywords:

cognitive-semantic mechanism, sensory cognition, sensory verbalization, taste conceptualization, sensory channel, metaphorical transfer, metonymic transfer.

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