CONCEPTUALIZATION AND REPRESENTATION OF THE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT IN THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

The article examines a problem of conceptualization and representation of the independent movement of an object in the English linguistic consciousness and in modern English in the format of the concept “movement”. The work explores cognitive models of one of the fragments of the surrounding reality, a comprehensive study and description of this model, as well as the disclosure of the specifics of its verbalization in modern English. The concept of “movement” is considered in various contexts and the allocation of certain conceptual characteristics by native English speakers in the course of verbal communication. The concept is defined as a self-organizing, integrative, functionally systematic, multidimensional, idealized unit based on a semantic basis and enclosed in a linguistic sign in the form of words (phrases) of everyday language, or more complex lexico-grammatical and semantic constructions, or non-verbal subjective images or actions. As a result of the research, the author states that a number of concepts arise in the speaker’s mind, united by the frame “non-causal moving”. These are the concepts of “upward moving”, “downward moving”, “horizontal moving”, “rotary moving”. The results of the material analysis show that the “non-causal moving” frame contains three main characteristics: multilevel, horizontal displacement and rotation.