| Abstract [eng] |
A Cognitive Study of Computational Compound Terms Formation in Lithuanian and English. This study is new because cognitive study of term formation in Lithuanian has been done only once before, whereas computational compound terms have not been analysed by this type of study. Therefore, it is relevant to promote this kind of research, and a new approach to word formation in order to develop a better understanding of the meaning and concepts of words. The aim of this paper is to carry out a cognitive study of computational compound terms formation in Lithuanian and English. The object of the study is English and Lithuanian computing vocabulary terms and their equivalents. The main objectives of the paper are to reveal the concept of cognitive grammar and cognitive approach to word formation, to investigate the cognitive models of computational compound terms, to investigate the cognitive models of computational compound term equivalents, and to compare the cognitive propositional models of computational compound terms in Lithuanian and English. After examining the concept of cognitive grammar, it was notable that this branch of linguistics is new and still not widely discussed. Furthermore, it was found that the structural approach to word formation is still prevalent in both English and Lithuanian, but several authors have tried to promote research towards the new cognitive approach. Among the compound terms analysed from the “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Computing” and the “English-Lithuanian Dictionary of Computing”, the most frequent ones were attributed to the OBJECT + OBJECT and OBJECT + FEATURE cognitive propositional models. The terms, assigned to the OBJECT + OBJECT model, are composed of two object concepts, and their connection is indicated by the predicate to be part of. In contrast, the terms, assigned to the OBJECT + FEATURE model, are composed of the concepts of object and feature, and their connection is specified by the predicate to be characteristic of what. This similarity and distribution between the two languages suggests that, although the languages are different, the thought processes that occur people’s minds are similar, especially when it comes to naming and categorising concepts. The results of this study can be used in further research on cognitive formation when analysing compound terms in other fields or to expand the body of existing research on cognitive studies. The structure of the paper consists of theoretical background on cognitive grammar and approaches to formation, a methodological part where the research methods, the source and the sample are discussed, a research part in which the cognitive study of computing compound terms is presented and conclusions. |
