The article describes a sequence of logical operations of a tripartite Method from the positions of conceptology as a part of cognitive linguistics. This demonstrates the algorithm of scientific application of the Method. In a broad sense, conceptology, as a part of cognitive linguistics, interprets the Method as a tripartite unity of the methodology of cognition, the method of research and the method of description. The conceptological method of research has a historical character; it is used to explore the function of a concrete sign as a symbol in word representation: the symbol, as well as the representation and the sign itself change in time and space. The three constituents of the Method are determined by the national preferences: the Anglo-Saxon positivism with its focus on cognition, the Russian preference of consciousness, and the French preoccupation with holistic knowledge. The necessity of obligatory separation of the tripartite method in all the actions performed makes it possible to build up a rigorous pattern of the logical sequence of operations and to present an algorithm of event. First, we define a methodological principle, then - the corresponding method (and there is a multitude of methods in each sphere of activity), and, finally, we choose a concrete procedure (technology) of activity. A detailed analysis of the given notions allows distinguishing the meaning of the terms originating from the Latin stem concept-: methodological conception (conceptio), methodological concept (conceptus), and the ultimate goal - exploration of the original “grain of primary meaning” (conceptum). Thus, at the first stage of investigation, our consciousness sets the aims within the realistic conception; at the second stage, there emerges an object in nominalistic cognition, which at the third stage becomes conceptual knowledge of objectified reality - an object - as a result of consecutive description of the original material.
Translated title of the contributionA REFLECTION ON THE METHOD
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)42-49
JournalПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ЛИНГВИСТИКА
Issue number1(73)
StatePublished - 2019

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