The mental consideration of resilience as a relevant social concept (a corpus-based research of American English)

Vitalii Stepanov; Anna Reshytko; Iryna Kobiakova

doi:10.2478/topling-2023-0012

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The mental consideration of resilience as a relevant social concept (a corpus-based research of American English)

Topics in Linguistics

Volume 24 (2023): Issue 2 (December 2023)

By: Vitalii Stepanov, Anna Reshytko and Iryna Kobiakova

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|Dec 2023

Abstract

The article is dedicated to researching resilience as a relevant social concept. It puts forward a new idea to study the actual mental consideration of social and political phenomena via purely linguistic tools. As a research methodology, a new approach is offered. In particular, the authors extrapolate Zhabotynska’s semantics of lingual networks onto Popova and Sternin’s semantic-cognitive analysis. The study is conducted through corpus technologies: a COCA sample of discourse contexts with the resilience lexeme is used to reconstruct a conceptual model of the resilience concept (denotative meaning). Subsequently, this meaning is processed via two cognitive operations: cognitive interpretation and prominence. Finally, the field cognitive model of resilience is obtained. Sorted by frequency in the corpus sample as core and periphery zones, the separate cognitive features indicate what is more or less important for Americans in the current consideration of resilience as a social and political phenomenon. Each research stage is explained and discussed by the authors in detail.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2023-0012 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6504 | Journal ISSN: 1337-7590

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Language: English

Page range: 69 - 90

Published online: Dec 25, 2023

Published in print: Dec 1, 2023

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Keywords:

Resilience,

concept,

conceptual model,

field cognitive model,

discourse,

corpus,

American English,

mental consideration

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other

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