PHENOMENON OF COGNITIVE MODELLING IN MODERN LINGUISTICS
Abstract
The paper is dedicated to the study of the phenomenon of cognitive modelling in modern linguistics, particularly the process of cognitive mapping in the ecological discourse of the English scientific conceptosphere. The study focuses on the concept of cognitive mapping as one of the methods of cognitive modelling used for visualizing mental models and analysing conceptual structures in scientific research.The choice of the research object is due to the necessity to reveal the process of cognitive modelling through the identification, description and systematizing of the interdependencies between linguistic forms and cognitive structures, as well as to analyse the interaction between cognitive linguistics and the mechanism of modelling linguistic units to identify conceptual relations specific to the field of environment.The study is focused on the analysis of the multilingual information resource EcoLexicon, which functions as a visual thesaurus and is based on cognitive-semantic approaches to knowledge modelling. The work examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of this resource, particularly, the principles of cognitive linguistics developed by Lawrence Barsalou and elements of the Generative Lexicon by James Pustejovsky. The research findings indicate that the application of cognitive-semantic analysis and Generative Lexicon methods facilitates the systematization of knowledge and the effective analysis of interdependencies between linguistic units. Particular attention is drawn to the analysis of the Qualia structure as the core mechanism of the Generative Lexicon, which enables the establishment of cause-and-effect relationships between concepts and expands the possibilities of conceptual modelling in the field of ecological discourse. The primary categories that form the ecological conceptosphere, as well as their internal and external relations, are analysed.The results suggest that the application of cognitive models in terminological research not only improve the organization of knowledge but also creates new approaches to describing linguistic units in scientific discourse. Thus, the expansion and implementation of cognitive-semantic methods in linguistics contribute to a deeper understanding of meaning formation mechanisms and the development of ecological terminology in a multilingual context.
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