Bazylevych N. Political Leader's Reflection Discourse in linguistic and cognitive perspective (based on W. Churchill's historic and memoir works)

This thesis focuses on revealing the linguistic and cognitive peculiarities of political leader's reflection discourse via the complex analysis presupposing the investigation of verbal means of its actualization in W. Churchill's historic and memoir works. W. Churchill's reflection has been proved to be actualised by verbal means - direct reflection markers (verbs denoting mental activity proсess, evaluative-and-descriptive lexical units) and indirect verbal markers (syntactic expressive means and lexical stylistic devices). Contextual use of the reflection verbal markers serves as the basis for distinguishing reflection marked contexts - textual fragments selected from W. Churchill's historic and memoir works which disclose the political leader's thoughts (reasoning, analysis, monitoring, etc.) about a reflection object. Cognitive bases of W. Churchill's reflection discourse are cognitive processes of the discourse formation - focusing, analysis, synthesis, abstraction, association, comparison, concretization and specification; linguistic and cognitive operations of conceptual mapping and frame modelling are of paramount importance to the process of the reader's / interpreter's decoding and interpretation of the political leader's reflection discourse. The conceptual space of W. Churchill's reflection discourse is composed of 18 textual concepts and constructed as a network model which represents different types of relations between concepts (partitive, subjective-and-causative, causative-and-resultative, attributive-and-possessive, reversive-and-functional, spatial, qualitative, associative) that actualize implied senses of the political leader's reflection discourse. Key words: reflection, reflection discourse, reflection marked context, cognitive processes, linguistic and cognitive operations, concept, frame, network model.