Cognitive-pragmatic and semantic-syntactic characteristics of the mental verb expect and its derivatives (in the English language)

Abstract

One of the main tasks of linguistic research is to analyze the linguistic phenomena associated with the reflection of human mental activity in the language. The work of the linguistic representation of human mental activity has not been fully defined and described yet. This can be explained by the difficulty of perceiving the internal processes of thinking that are impossible to see, and the lack of any resonable classification of linguistic means with the meaning “mental”. The article deals with the cognitive-pragmatic and semantic-syntactic features of the mental verb “expect” and its derivatives in the English language. The purpose of the research is to study the semantic-syntactic and cognitive features of the verb “expect” and its derivatives. The scientific originality of the work is determined by the analysis of the syntactic features of the verb “expect” and its derivatives with the meaning “mental” within the communicative and pragmatic aspect in English language. The objectives of the work are to describe the syntactic features of the verb expect and its derivatives with the meaning “mental”, to determine the lexical-semantic structure of the verb “expect” and its derivatives with the meaning “mental”; to identify the semantic, pragmatic and cognitive characteristics of the verb “expect” and its derivatives. The following methods were used in the work: the definitional analysis and the method of contextual analysis. The results of the study showed that the cognitive meaning “mental” is in the cognate words of the verb “expect”. The author concluded that the actualization of the pragmatic meanings of the verb expect and its derivatives only occurs in the context of real communicative discourse.

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