From the History of Cognitive Linguistic Approaches in Russian and Western-
European Poetics

Авторы
V. V. Feshchenko
The article provides an overview of some recent works on cognitive
poetics. Of particular interest are studies close to linguistic problematic of cognition in
literary texts. A separate analysis tackles the case from the history of Russian thought
about language and poetry – the theory of artistic (poetic) concepts by the Russian
philosopher S. А. Askoldov. The paper also considers conceptions of Western-European
linguists that emerged at the peak of the “cognitive turn” in the 1970s: theories of T. van
Dijk and J. Lakoff – M. Turner, as well as criticism of these works by the Israeli literary
critic R. Tsur; the approaches of P. Stockwell (author of the theory of deictic shifts), the
Sheffield School of Text Worlds Analysis (J. Gavins, A. Gibbons), and M. Freeman
(applications of cognitive linguistics to the study of literary text).
DOI
10.25205/2307-1737-2019-2-128-135
Аннотация

The article provides an overview of some recent works on cognitive
poetics. Of particular interest are studies close to linguistic problematic of cognition in
literary texts. A separate analysis tackles the case from the history of Russian thought
about language and poetry – the theory of artistic (poetic) concepts by the Russian
philosopher S. А. Askoldov. The paper also considers conceptions of Western-European
linguists that emerged at the peak of the “cognitive turn” in the 1970s: theories of T. van
Dijk and J. Lakoff – M. Turner, as well as criticism of these works by the Israeli literary
critic R. Tsur; the approaches of P. Stockwell (author of the theory of deictic shifts), the
Sheffield School of Text Worlds Analysis (J. Gavins, A. Gibbons), and M. Freeman
(applications of cognitive linguistics to the study of literary text).

Keywords
cognition, poetics, concept

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From the History of Cognitive Linguistic Approaches in Russian and Western-
European Poetics С. 128–135. DOI 10.25205/2307-1737-2019-2-128-135