Cognitive-Expressive Potential of Signs of Scientific Language in Literary Text

Abstract

The article considers the peculiarities of representation of general and special scientific knowledge in the semiotic space of literary text. The author analyzes such representatives of scientific knowledge as signs of artificial languages and precedent proper names of science which possess significant cognitive-expressive potential and, as a result, are widely used by authors of literary texts. Cognitive-expressive potential of these language units manifests itself in their ability to represent with the help of the minimum of language means complex mental structures with the center which in constituted by the scientific notion and peripheral zones connected with the center of the concept with the help of complex of associations. This concept accumulates the information belonging to the scientific worldview as well as to other worldviews and which is actualized by the author’s usage of the name of the concept in some context. The conclusion is made that background knowledge belonging to peripheral zones of the concept determines the direction of the interpretation activity of the reader that explains the existence of the numerous variants of interpretation of such language units and the peculiar role of the reader in this process.