Conceptual Integration and Understanding in English Texts

Abstract

The article addresses issues related to conceptual integration and understanding in English texts.

The analysis showed that in recent years, as a result of the strong development of textual linguistics, the text has become the object of research. This provides ample opportunity to study the content of language units. Language, as a means of communication as well as the realization of thought, reflects the regularities of mental processes in various forms. These regularities, in turn, reflect the events and processes of objective reality. Therefore, the study of the text as a product of speech activity, which reflects the mental process, is studied not only in linguistics, but also in other disciplines, which study the text in accordance with their tasks.

The study of the text involves the question of its importance.

As we know, in an attempt to find an answer to the question of the relationship between thought and text, linguists, psychologists, and cognitologists often rely on the idea that meaning in a text is a ready-made structure and is realized only in the form of speech.

But in fact, the process of understanding the text is a very complex event. It goes through several stages and is formed.

This complex process of textual meaning formation, that is, the transformation of the speech information of a vague idea into a clear and extensive chain of speech messages, must be studied in particular.

Knowledge of the language means that the speaker sees a difference between the text and that which does not appear in the text - a group of words or sentences. It is based not only on the knowledge of words and structure, but more than on the understanding of that role, which plays a language in this situation. In this case, the role of the language is recognized only in that case, if it becomes the desired text. This is called the text function of the language, which contributes to the creation of the text.

Key words: text, language, word, conceptual integration, understanding, mental space, input space, context, general space.