<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The study brings a brief view at the problem of cognitive association between the space perception and the categorization reflected in natural language from the linguistic point of view that is very close connected to the linguistic worldview and possesses the ethno-cultural specifics. The analysis is focused on the differences of the vertical and horizontal space models’ cognitive dominants in two relative Slavic languages – Russian and Slovak, and on the possible reasons of its existence. The study is devoted to the prominent Slovak philologist Viktor Krupa.</p></abstract>

The study brings a brief view at the problem of cognitive association between the space perception and the categorization reflected in natural language from the linguistic point of view that is very close connected to the linguistic worldview and possesses the ethno-cultural specifics. The analysis is focused on the differences of the vertical and horizontal space models’ cognitive dominants in two relative Slavic languages – Russian and Slovak, and on the possible reasons of its existence. The study is devoted to the prominent Slovak philologist Viktor Krupa.

Space Perception and Language Categorization

Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The study brings a brief view at the problem of cognitive association between the space perception and the categorization reflected in natural language from...

Space Perception and Language Categorization

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Mai 2017

Seitenbereich: 233 - 245

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0010

Schlüsselwörter
language categorization, space perception, linguistic worldview, ethno-cultural specifics

© 2016 Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra, SAV, Bratislava

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Space Perception and Language Categorization

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Mai 2017

Seitenbereich: 233 - 245

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0010

Schlüsselwörterlanguage categorization, space perception, linguistic worldview, ethno-cultural specifics

© 2016 Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra, SAV, Bratislava

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
language categorization, space perception, linguistic worldview, ethno-cultural specifics