Abstract:
The peculiarities of the correlation between the notions of “language image” and “linguistic means of expression of the image” are analyzed in the article. Conception of the language image is improved. Analyzed notion is considered as a complex dynamic category providing four consistent forms of the image transformation: psychological, cognitive thesaurus, verbal sign, discursive corresponding to four levels of imagery (sensory, mental, verbal and communicative-pragmatic). The correlation between the notions of “language image” and “linguistic means of expression of the image” is found out in two aspects: traditional (formal) and modern (cognitive). Two main aspects of the interpretation of the notion of the language imagery are considered: as a way of image creating and as a means of image reproducing. It is found out that the category of linguistic imagery includes two concepts: language image and linguistic means of expression of the image. The notion of the language image is considered as a way, a model of the imagery creation, and the notion of the linguistic means of expression of the image is considered as a means of image reproduction. In the first case, the language image is interpreted as a mental-lingual unity, a text-making category. According to this approach the concept of “language image” is considered also as a process of sequential conceptualization, a dynamic category forming at the different levels of imagery, each of which has the features of the lingual representation. And the notion of the linguistic means of expression of the image is interpreted as a complex of the lexical units that reproduce imagery verbally. The main precondition for the distinction between the terms of “language image” and “linguistic means of expression of the image” is considered in the distinction between the notions of cognitive and linguistic metaphors. Accordingly, the concept of language image includes cognitive and linguistic metaphors, and the concept of linguistic means of expression of the image includes linguistic metaphor only.
