Cognitive motivation of language and ways of thinking: a semiotic-cognitive analysis of the sociolect of the pandemic

Loayza-Maturrano E.F. · Desde el Sur (2022) · DOI: 10.21142/des-1401-2022-0013

Resumen

The research approaches from a semiotic-cognitive approach the analysis of the phraseological repertoire that emerged in the period of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic since the months of March and April in Peruvian society. The objective of this study is to propose a model of se-miotic-cognitive analysis applied to any sociolect from a transversal perspective. The proposed model is based on cognitive linguistics and symbolic interactionism. Information was collected through the newspapers of the written press in Metropolitan Lima. The analysis allowed to esta-blish that eight ways of thinking or conceptual procedu-res are evidenced in the cognitive processes of language. The research allows us to conclude that the sociolect ge-nerated by COVID-19 in Peruvian society, according to the cognitive perspective, represent symbolic units motivated through linguistic-cognitive processes of a metaphorical, metonymic and hyperbolic type.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina