Cognitive activity of the language

Abstract

The problems of intercommunication of language and cognition are examined in the article. Perception of surrounding reality, collection of knowledge, is analysed about her, display of these knowledge in a language, i.e. understanding by the man of language picture of the world. The когнитивная function of language is determined and the basic concepts of cognitive linguistics are characterized. Cognitive science is regarded as one of the new sciences, the object of investigation of which are the results of human cognitive activity and mental processes of processing (or processing) of information. The meanings of such terms as knowledge, cognition and stereotype are explained. The peculiarities of the structure of the individual human lexion and the vocabulary of the whole people are determined.