Человек. Образ и сущность 2015. Гуманитарные аспекты. Человек ощущающий: Перцепция в современном гуманитарном знании - стр. 3

The volume contains six sections.

Section 1 entitled «Theoretical issues of perception in the Humanities» presents papers which lay out the methodological foundations for the study of perceptual processes.

The paper contributed by A. Nagornaya contains a review of contemporary humanitarian research into perception. The author argues for the validity of perception as a research field for the Humanities and considers the main lines of research into perceptual processes in the contemporary Humanities. The paper by D. Nikoulitcheva deals with the perception of time and establishes correlations between the subjective perception of time, its metaphorical representation and the language categories of tense and aspect. Time as a phenomenon is analyzed in the paper by N. Kudriavtseva, who approaches it as a sensation and as a philosophical metaphor. The paper by I. Zhuravlev and I. Zhuravleva considers the issue of the methodological basis for the general theory of perceptual activity and looks into the mechanisms and techniques of persuasive communication. S. Kalinin studies the status of perception as a category in H. Maturano’s theory and analyzes the correlation between perception and cognition. I. Guseinova’s paper describes the language means employed in the visualization of the emotional and the rational in German poetry. D. Tregubova addresses the issue of ethnicity and suggests an interpretation for the category «ethnic self-consciousness». G. Khlebnikov carries out research into the role of perception in ancient philosophical theology and analyzes different types of perception of the supernatural.

Section 2 is entitled «Linguacultural analysis of the objects of perception».

It opens with the paper by M. Kiose who considers inferential and bodily-inferential techniques of conceptualizing the referent in the English and Russian languages. M. Yasinskaya’s paper describes the mythological motifs related to the perception of vision in the Slavic culture. M. Rarenko focuses on the ways of conceptualizing pain which are accepted in the English linguaculture. E. Yakovenko researches into ways of verbalizing interoceptive sensations in Biblical texts.

Section 3 of the volume focuses on the experimental analysis of perceptual processes.

M. Khitina’s paper deals with the sense perception of voiced tests. E. Yakovleva describes an auditive experiment which was carried out in order to reveal the cognitive features of perceptual behavior in speakers of different languages. The paper by A. Kuznetsov tackles the issue of presenting the semantics of a word in explanatory dictionaries and describes an experiment aimed at revealing the shortcomings in the existing definitions. R. Potapova and L. Komalova presented the results of an experimental study which dealt with the perception of aggressive behavior based on the auditory image.