Age-Related Cognitive Anomalies and Their Lexical Mirror
The article discusses lexical units representing the idea of weakening cognitive abilities and mental health with age. The designated lexical set is part of an extensive group of names of human cognitive anomalies. In this paper, the author primarily focuses on the search for motivational connections (we are talking about the “internal” or “left” motivation) of the selected lexemes. Also, in some cases, the reasoning is provided with etymological comments that help to identify the logic by which the meaning of age-related cognitive anomalies is formed. The material for the work was Russian dialect words that have an indication in the definitions of the age-related nature of the abnormal state of consciousness. In addition to information from dialect dictionaries, language facts from the card file are used of the “Dictionary of dialects of the Russian North”, stored at the Department of Russian Language, General Linguistics and Verbal Communication of the Ural Federal University.