CATASTROPHE in English Pop Culture: A Cognitive-Semiotic Perspective

Колесник, Олександр Сергійович (2025) CATASTROPHE in English Pop Culture: A Cognitive-Semiotic Perspective Cognitive studies | Études cognitives (25). ISSN 2392-2397

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Abstract

The paper addresses verbal means that represent the notion of catastrophe / disaster in present-day English rock lyrics. The article employs an interdisciplinary approach that treats categorisation patterns and respective semiotic phenomena as irrational rationalisation and myth-oriented semiosis. The concept of CATASTRO-PHE embodies human experience of systems’ rapid transformations that cause their structural and functional breakdown or annihilation. The paper discusses the reconstructed irrational “nano-myth” behind the semantics of CATASTROPHE’s designations and suggests a formal logical model of a catastrophic event. The article highlights the cognitive premises of language units verbalizing the said concept in rock lyrics. Respective

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	system; catastrophe; disaster; designation; cognition; myth
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Web of Science
Divisions:	Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра германської філології
Depositing User:	Професор Олександр Сергійович Колесник
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2026 14:04
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2026 14:04
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/56596

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