Mental Imagery in Bertrand Russell's Nobel Lecture What Desires Are Politically Important?

Title variants

PL

Wyobraźnia mentalna w wykładzie noblowskim Bertranda Russela "Jakie pragnienia są ważne politycznie?"

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the analysis of the mental images of human desires and their verbalization techniques involved in Bertrand Russell's Nobel lecture delivered in 1950. Human desires are non-material mental constructs that are not clearly dened in the dictionaries, their verbalization being complicated by the issues related to rationality, psychology of thinking, objectivity, and the variability of individual behavioral reactions. The results of the research suggest that the verbalization of desires is essentially complicated by social and cultural stereotypes. It has been noted that storytelling can be applied as one of the most eective techniques to create the required mental imagery of desires in the recipient's mind. B. Russell's unique manner of dening such politically important desires as acquisitiveness, vanity, glory, love of power, excitement is carefully analyzed. The use of gurative language as well as conceptual and stylistic metaphors that facilitate the process of shaping mental images of desires have also been the focus of my attention. Special consideration has been given to the analysis of the verbalization means of the politically important desires.

Keywords

EN

cognitive processing; mental imagery; desires; Bertrand Russell

PL

przetwarzanie poznawcze; wyobrażenia umysłu; pragnienia; Bertrand Russell

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 85-97

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

other

Iryna Biskub

• Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk (Ukraine)

• https://orcid.org/0000000158447524

Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2021.1.85-97

Biblioteka Nauki

1853951