Categorization of objects of reality on the example of products of plant origin in the Kumyk language

Mamaevа Yulduz Toitovna

This article is devoted to the definition of the specificity of the formation of categories of plant products among the speakers of the Kumyk language. As you know, categorization helps us to organize the objects of reality and systematize our worldview and worldview into a single holistic picture of being. Knowledge of the surrounding world, its understanding occurs by means of differentiation of the General features at comparison of the past and new experience. New experience is classified by consciousness and correlated with one or more conceptual formations formed earlier. The result of the action of deep cognitive processes is the formation of a system of categories, which are groups of concepts stored in memory.

Keywords:category, categorization, lexical categorization, world view, cognitive science, consciousness, language