Belozyorova Y. Cognitive and Discourse Conceptualization of Time in the Modern German Language

An object is the category of time, that is the specific linguistic reflection of the objective time and serves for temporal localization of events or states, which are described in the sentence; a purpose is the complex research of main ways and methods of cognitive-discursive contseptualization of time in the Modern German Language; methods are the discursive, conceptual, descriptive and syntagmatic, lexicographic, distributive, component analysis with procedures of transformation, substitution and comparison, and also the conducting of experiment with informants; the scientific novelty is predetermined by the given detailed description of temporal relations in Modern German Language from positions of cognitive-discursive linguistics; the theoretical importance is consists in general principles and approaches of the object of research, which are valuable in deepening and spreading of epistemic items of cognitive linguistics, discourse, lingua semiotics; practical significance - the conclusions can beused in the courses of lectures for the bases of linguistics, theoretical grammar, lexicology and stylistics. Sphere of knowledge is philology.