COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

Abstract

Language, which in its structure is a system of verbal sound signs and
in its purpose is primarily a communicative system, provides acts of transmission
and reception of messages containing information and knowledge about the
world that the speaker (or writer) has. But at the same time, it serves the
processing and organization of acquired knowledge, its storage in human
memory, i.e. functions as a cognitive system. Elementary units of knowledge,
concepts, as a rule, are organized into complexes, intellectual systems, cognitive,
or cognitive structures, various types of which have recently been often
collectively called frames.