Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2017 10) 59-66 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81 Conceptual Network as a Dynamic Cognitive Construct of the Author-Reader Interaction Kseniia V. Martyniuk* Kemerovo State University 12 Kutuzova Str., Kemerovo, 654041, Russia Received 28.11.2016, received in revised form 02.12.2016, accepted 12.01.2017 The article is written in the framework of the cognitive paradigm. <...> It is devoted to the problem of text production and perception and aims at description of cognitive operations which the reader undertakes in the process of text interpretation. <...> The study is based on the theory of biological nature of cognition. <...> The work also investigates the transformations which the author’s individual concept undergoes in the process of reader’s interpretation. <...> The approach gives possibility to make the conclusion that conceptualization is possible due to some dynamic connections – moduses of perception. <...> Keywords: text perception and interpretation, concept, conceptual network, modus of perception. <...> Introduction The issues of text production and text perception are subject to modern up-to-date linguistic studies. <...> Although the cognitive paradigm establishes itself as predominating in linguistics, still the cognitive component of interaction between the Author and the Reader is to be studied more thoroughly. <...> We presuppose that an author’s text objectifies verbal representations of individual conceptual configurations which “trigger” individual concepts in the reader’s © Siberian Federal University. <...> Theoretical framework and methods The aim of creating a text is traditionally considered to be in objectification of the author’s Kseniia V. Martyniuk. <...> Conceptual Network as a Dynamic Cognitive Construct of the Author-Reader Interaction idea, conveying the meaning to the reader. <...> The Author-Reader interaction space within a framework of a text has always been a subject to scientific speculations of various branches of linguistics. <...> In decoding stylistics text creation is regarded as a process of coding information (images, emotions, relations etc.) by the author by means of language. <...> Issues of text perception and text interpretation are widely studied from a perspective of psycholinguistics (Zalevskaia, 2005). <...> Discourse theory (Dijk, Kintsch, 1983) introduces “strategies of comprehension” which help to organize a mental (cognitive) model of the object which is being perceived. <...> The founders of the discourse theory distinguish three main kinds of such strategies: proposition, macroproposition and local coherence. <...> Only <...>