Morozova O. Linguistic Aspects of Lying as a Cognitive and Communicative Formation in Modern English

This dissertation presents an integrated approach to researching linguistic aspects of lying. The study is underpinned with the postulates of the cognitive and discourse paradigm of linguistic knowledge. Lying is considered as a cognitive and communicative formation which exists in the spaces of language and discourse. It has been established that these existential spaces of lying are interlinked with the concept LYING which is a unity of the static (classifying and structuralizing) and the dynamic (identifying) modi. The thesis introduces and describes a unit of discourse instantiation of lying (the discourseme of lying), models the concept LYING as a frame and a prototype, reveals the principles of structural organization of the conceptual category of lying as well as suggests the phase model of the situation of lying and the configuration model of the deceptive utterance. The latter model is used as a basis for describing the inner form, the cognitive and communicative content of deceptive utterances. Discourse instantiations of lying are modelled according to the rhizome principle.