The Concept of Quantity and Cognitive Linguistics

This article is dedicated to elucidating the role of human beings and their national-cultural dimensions within contemporary linguistic paradigms, the organisation of knowledge about the world through cognitive models, and the broad functional scope of language as understood through the cognitive approach. The article presents perspectives on how speakers of different languages and cultures perceive, categorise, conceptualise, verbalise, and encode reality into sign systems in different ways. The connection of this issue with characteristics of mentality determined by natural-geographical, socio-historical, religious-philosophical, national-cultural, and other factors is substantiated with supporting evidence.