TY - JOUR
TI - Subject and Object in the Space of the Word: Roman Ingarden and Cognitive Linguistics
AU - Tabakowska, Elżbieta
TI - Subject and Object in the Space of the Word: Roman Ingarden and Cognitive Linguistics
AB - Works written in the cognitivist vein have been clearly inspired by and connected with Gestalt psychology – a fact recognized by scholars who describe the beginnings and sub- sequent development of cognitive theories of language. However, the discoverers of hidden aspects of the history of Cognitive Linguistics hardly ever put on their lists of forerunners the name of Roman Ingarden. And yet many of fundamental principles that underlie cognitivist theories of language and grammar can be found in Ingarden’s writings, notably in his The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, first published in 1937 – exactly half a century before the year 1987, the annus mirabilis of Cognitive Linguistics, when its founding fathers published their groundbreaking monographs. Ingarden wrote about “literature”, while Langacker and his followers focus upon “non-literature”, i.e. text and discourse as elements of everyday communication. But both the (narrower) aesthetic concepts of Ingarden and the wider (linguistic) notions of Langacker, Lakoff or Talmy are based upon the fundamental opposition between the objectivist and the subjectivist approach. Most striking is the convergence of their view upon the shape of language as it occurs in verbal expression, inevitably connected with consciousness and mental activity of the producer: a cognizant subject of perception, conceptualization and expression. Deeper knowledge of Ingarden’s phenomenological thought might enrich cognitivist reflection on language and by taking account of phenomenological aspects of language use promote the search for markers of “everyday literariness”.
VL - First View (2024)
IS - Volume 19, Issue 1
PY - 2024
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 25
EP - 42
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/subject-and-object-in-the-space-of-the-word-roman-ingarden-and-cognitive-linguistics
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - Gestalt psychology
KW - imagery
KW - instantiation
KW - indeterminateness
KW - intentionality
KW - mental spaces
KW - objectivism
KW - places of indeterminacy
KW - subjectivism