COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC UNITS EXPRESSING HUMAN MENTAL STATE IN “THE WAVES” BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
Abstract
This study explores each of the cognitive linguistic mechanisms that underlie the expression of human mental states in language. Drawing from all fields such as cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis, we carefully identify and thoroughly analyze those principal linguistic units—mental state verbs, emotion adjectives, epistemic markers, and metaphors—that deeply encode certain mental processes such as thinking, believing, feeling, and perceiving. Through qualitative and comparative analyses, we can depict how these particular expressions do reflect conceptual structures, represented cognition, and Theory of Mind.
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