Article

Name: Yu. S. Stepanov’s Method of Ascension and Cognitive-Semiotic Dimensions of Optimal Linguistic Creativity

Authors: M. I. Kiose

Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract: In the study the method of ascension developed by Ju.S. Stepanov to explore the modifications in logical and philosophical dimensions of language is applied to explore cognitive-semiotic dimensions of optimal linguistic creativity. Following the system of linguistic creativity dimensions offered by O. K. Iriskhanova, which are formal, cognitive and ontologic, we study the balance of Fixed and Extending creativity (the concept introduced by T. Hoffmann) representing optimal creativity in each of them. To conduct the research, we contrast the values of linguistic creativity parameters in terms of cognitive construal mechanisms in children’s prose discourse, thus detecting the specifics in Fixed and Extending creativity in the cognitivesemiotic dimensions of linguistic creativity as well as the specifics in categorial representation of optimal linguistic creativity.

Keywords: linguistic creativity, optimal linguistic creativity, method of ascension, F(ixed)- creativity and E(xtending)-creativity, children’s prose

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