On the Space of Language and the Language of Spaces in Lexicographic Discourse: Modelling and Interpretation Options
This article presents the results of the study of spatial concepts in the metalanguage of linguistics of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, when the issues of ‘the space of language and the language of spaces’ (E. S. Kubryakova) acquired important theoretical and practical significance and relevance and attracted the attention of prominent linguists remaining in the spotlight to this day. Also, the author examines the dynamics of the formation of the paradigm of terms for spaces of language that are studied theoretically and employed in practical analysis. These terms are actively used as lexicographic parameters in the modelling of multi-dimensional linguistic sets of varying levels and importance within the structure of ideographic dictionaries of the Ural Semantic School. In the spatial dimension, different cognitive strategies for representing the world of experience have been identified; these strategies shape the image of the linguistic worldview. The article describes the constructive aspect of ideographic dictionaries, together with the cognitive strategies governing their internal organisation, demonstrating the role of spatial measurement in that organisation. It is shown that the construction of integrated linguistic spaces is based on the principal modelling rule, i.e. the horizontal-vertical arrangement of sets of units within the external global structure of ideographic dictionaries. This principle is applied in different respects: in the semiological aspect as lexical and semantic linguistic spaces; in the semasiological aspect as denotative and conceptual spaces; and in the system-ideographic aspect as lexico-semantic, semantic-derivational, functional-semantic, denotative-ideographic, conceptual-ideographic, cognitive-discursive spaces, and other analogous sets of component units. These types of spaces interact in lexicographic discourse during the compilation of dictionaries of various kinds, thereby shaping their genre structure. Particular attention is paid to the complex of lexicographic parameters of different ideographic dictionaries and their constituent sets of units, whose composition and content are related to the cognitive mechanisms of spatial measurement of various kinds.