The linguo-cognitive model of an impudent act

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Russian lexemes, naming the situation of the impudent act, from the cognitive and prototype semantics, as well as the frame theory. In this article impudence is viewed as an act. An act is understood by the author as an intended action, that is committed by a human being, leads to a certain result and valued by another person or people. The research is based on the idea that notions about some acts, including an act of impudence, rely on the frame which is a structure, the elements of which are the motive, the action, the subject of the act, its object, the result and the value. The aim of the paper is to show how these elements are represented on the language level, on the syntactic level, on the level of speech and the level of verbal associations. The lexicographic analysis, the analysis of the semantic roles, expressed by the name of the act of impudence and its actants, the discourse analysis and the study of the associative data helped to come up with the linguo-cognitive model of the impudent act. The prototypic features of the frame were figured out as well.