Influence of Cultural Framing on the Perception of Grammatical Meanings in Foreign Texts
The concept of cultural framing has appeared in psychology rather recently, and it has yet a formulating character. There are a relatively scarce number of publications both in Russian and English academic literature, dedicated to cultural framing. Being a means of ordering and structuring the world, cultural framing can be compared with grammar in a language, because grammar structures all the lexical units into a meaningful utterance. Taking into account all the diversity of existing languages, one can speak of only 9 grammatical means which are represented to a different extent in any particular language. The aim of the research is revealing a possible connection between grammatical structure of a language and the process of cultural framing while perceiving a foreign text.