Components of Cognitive-Discursive Approach: Understanding the Foundations

The presented article delves into the cognitive-discursive approach in the study of mythology. This approach, within language research, holds a broader scope compared to the cognitive approach, providing a deeper understanding of verbalization within speech activity and its content. Within the realm of speech (discursive) activity, the cognitive basis of the language competence of the speech subject is manifested through content forms, which are then expressed through language forms grounded in cognitive-propositional structures. Today, the study of mythology and the conceptual realm of myths holds significant relevance, particularly within the context of conducting research on human concepts through an anthropocentric paradigm. This involves advancing methods to describe and investigate anthropocentric issues, understanding the core principles of comparative mythology, and establishing the interconnectedness of mythological conceptual units based on how gods and heroes are represented in mythology. In this article, we aim to provide a methodological and linguistic-cultural exploration of mythological concepts. This will be achieved through the analysis and etymology of mythological images as integral components of phraseologisms, linguistic and cultural interpretations of these mythological images, as well as their modeling. We will also develop a methodology and a conceptual framework for studying the distinctive features of mythology. Special emphasis will be placed on the analysis from a cognitive-discursive approach perspective to delineate the aforementioned characteristics of units within the mythological conceptual sphere.