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 -