The problem of conceptual modeling of the child growing up in the context of children’s literature

Based on the five-volume novel “Leningrad Fairy Tales” by Y. Yakovleva, the article systemically identifies multidimensional relationships between stereotypical relevant knowledge and scenarios of the child characters’ physical and psychological development, examines the problem of a growing individual’s operative memory and its cognitive role in the process of linguistic embodiment of current events. We have established that the reader’s attention is focused on the strategies for interpreting objective reality, which are effective for a growing child character in the context of culturally defined children’s literature discourse. The processes of growing of a child character are conceptualized in the texts of children’s literature based on cultural scenarios and embodied metaphors. In this regard, we can trace the interrelationships between the metaphorical embodiment and the structure of the narrative, in particular, how a child’s knowledge of the surrounding reality influences the architectonics of the narrative. The article concludes that textuality is generated and perceived through the prism of physicality, being based on audiovisual channels, and the child-reader maintains communicative contact with the author by activating memories, predetermined by the cultural context, which cause intense emotional reactions. Of essential importance in the format of children’s literature are such aspects of age-related cognizing of the current eventuality as stereotypical background knowledge and cognitive scripts, which, in turn, are predeter-mined by physical and cultural vectors, embodied models of consciousness as developed patterns of expression that exist in the discursive construction of childhood. Child-readers rely on cognitive functions such as memory, perception and emotion to analyze cause-and-effect relationships in a storyline. All of these cognitive functions work together to convey information about the emotional potential and collective nature of storytelling.