Metaphorical aspects of imagination. Imagination role in cognitive problem solution at the stage of eye-mindedness

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики

Kalashnikova Larisa V.¹ 

[1] Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev;

关键词: metaphor;    metaphorical aspects;    cognitive structures;    reality;    representation;    imagination;    mental model;    eye-mindedness;    concept;    image;   

DOI  :  10.29025/2079–6021-2018-3(31)-177-188

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article is devoted to the essential problem – metaphorical aspects of imagination. An individual in the creativeprocess uses experience, knowledge of the previous generations enriching own experience and adding the element of distinctivenessand individuality to the world’s experience. During the process of cognitive problem solution, spatial imaginationhelps an individual to create mental images without their visualization. At the eye-mindedness stage, the imaginationplays a very important role in the cognitive activity of a child and makes its own contribution to the continuous process ofthe child’s world cognition. Cognizing the reality, communicating with adults a child tries to comprehend the surrounding«metaphorical reality» literally, in his own way and to the extent of his cognitive experience development, referring to hisown interpretation and creating new meanings. A child’s cognitive experience is not as rich as an adult’s experience thatis why the fantasy element is introduced into the cognitive process. A child compares his inconsiderable in number mentalmodels with the reality objects, simulating his own reality based on the general typical features, «reading» (checking) theknown information and filling in the informative gaps with new one. Everything that a child learns forms the basis for hisgames and stories that help him to appreciate new information. Children are able to build independently some metaphoricalconstructions, finding new functions for familiar objects, which allow establishing of inter-frame connections possessingheuristic power. Analysis of the subject’s linguistic worldview presented in the literary work fragment allows making theconclusion that metaphor is a universal tool of the intellection and the world cognition in all activity spheres

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