METHODS OF COGNITIVE-DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The article discusses discourse analysis in terms of the views of Russian and Western scholars and the methods of cognitive analysis of discourse. Cognitive analysis of discourse includes textual and contextual aspects. Textual analysis of discourse implies the consideration of linguistic structures at all levels, that is, phonetic, graphic, morphological, syntactic, semantic, lexical, and macrostructure at levels. In contrast, discourse contextual analysis involves the consideration of all extralinguistic factors: time, place, fields of activity, discourse participants, their social roles, the character of their interactions, and the cognitive characteristics of discourse participants.

Keywords: discourse analysis, cognitive, contextual, extralinguistic, macrostructure, textual analysis, phonetic level, semiotics, semantics and lexicon, political discourses