COGNITIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE LITERARY DIALOGUE

Abstract

The following article deals with the concept analysis in the literary dialogue from the perspective of Cognitive and Cultural linguistics. Cognitive and Cultural linguistics are the modern trends of Linguistics as a result of anthropocentric paradigm to language. In this approach, the interaction between the language and human is the main basis of this paradigm. Cognitive and Cultural Linguistics have own main notions as interdisciplinary branches of linguistic sciences and “concept” is considered as one of basic notions of Cognitive and Cultural linguistics as well as being the core of attention of several interdisciplinary branches of linguistics. Different definitions were given to the notion of "concept". Concept is formed through the individual's emotional, physical, historical, personal and social experience gained in the process of percepting the world. Another definition representing the concept is that it is a complex mental entity as well as being a component of the conceptual world picture conceptually relevant either to the whole community or an individual linguistic personality. In this article, concepts Beauty and Love are analyzed according to the study with the notional, image-bearing and evaluative layers. The conceptual features, which constitute the structure of the concept are revealed at each stage of the analysis in the article. In this regard, two concepts are analyzed according to dictionary definitions in notional level. The image-bearing and evaluative layers are based on the features of the concept in the extracts of literary dialogues of the texts. In addition, the contextual analysis reveals the conceptual features, which are not found at the level of dictionary analysis and phraseological analysis.