COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

Abstrak

Language, which in its structure is a system of verbal sound signs andin its purpose is primarily a communicative system, provides acts of transmissionand reception of messages containing information and knowledge about theworld that the speaker (or writer) has. But at the same time, it serves theprocessing and organization of acquired knowledge, its storage in humanmemory, i.e. functions as a cognitive system. Elementary units of knowledge,concepts, as a rule, are organized into complexes, intellectual systems, cognitive,or cognitive structures, various types of which have recently been oftencollectively called frames.