The emergence of cognitive images underlying language systems

Vasilyev Valery Ivanovich, Nikitinskaya Larisa Vladimirovna

The article describes the performance of consciousness to fragment the reality available for observation leading to the emergence of stable images of certain elements of the reality which subsequently form the meaningful foundation of language categories, subsystems and systems. Cognitive images are identified with introspection while applying Gustave Guillaume’s psychomechanics by intercepting the course of thinking with the use of binary radical tensor. As a result, six consecutive stages were identified along a unidirectional progression of thought and a possibility for the emergence of new vectors of thought progression with subsequent binary tensor operations in additional dimensions. The outcome of the research provide for a possibility to present a final set of all possible cognitive images in the existing languages.

Keywords:cognitive linguistics, Gustave Guillaume, cognitive images, psychomechanics, cognitive features, inception of thought, multidimensionality, underlying systems, particularisation, generalisation, radical binary tensor, cognitive linguistics