CATEGORIES OF SENSE AND MEANINGIN PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

Анотація

The article deals with the fundamental logical-semantic categories of meaning and sense. The main
subject to handle is the complexity of meaning and sense of psychological terms used in psychological
discourse. Proceeding from the idea that speech generation is governed by abstract mechanisms through
which the deep structure of the lingual units correlates with the surface structure, the author makes an attempt
to consider and explain the processes of sense generation in psychological texts. This process is interpreted
taking into account the general orientation of semantic processes from the pole of the subject of activity
to the pole of its object through the realization of semantic structures and their relations. The semantic
contaminations and attractions of psychological lexis in the processes of sense generation are revealed. The
phenomenon of metaphorics as a universal mechanism of sense generation in psychological discourse is
considered and the main functions of metaphors are explored. The concepts of mental and semantic spaces
are scrutinized and their role in the process of sense generation is clarifi ed.
Keywords: category of sense, category of meaning, psychological discourse, surface/deep structure,
sense generation, metaphor, semantic process, semantic space.