Nizhnevartovsk Philological BulletinNizhnevartovsk Philological Bulletin2500-1795Nizhnevartovsk State University89218Research ArticleThe question about the categorization of the world in the modern American novelKulikovaDarya M.culikowa.dascha2011@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1645-5299State Social and Humanitarian University1506202161838726112021Copyright © 2021, Kulikova D.M.2021<p>This article examines one of the areas of cognitive linguistics - linguo-psychological, designed to explore the categorization of the world and the characteristic features of the picture of the world. The article also provides a distinction between the concepts of conceptualization and categorization. One of the categories of this direction of linguistics is categorization, the essence of which is obtaining information and distributing it into categories of knowledge, for which it is required to structure the phenomena and processes that occur. The paper presents a graphical representation of the categorization process and the inclusion of new knowledge in the experience gained in the past. It is concluded that the process under study is complex, it is based on a variety of mental operations. On the example of E. Donoghue's psychological novel The Room, an analysis was made of the situations in which one of the main characters, a five-year-old boy Jack, was, the ways in which he categorizes the world were determined, and examples of these situations were given. One of the most important problems described in this book is the problem of communication between heroes and other people, namely, its lack. The boy grew up in a room, for him what is not located in it is in open space. The objects and living things that he sees on the TV screen are living; he does not understand why his favorite cartoon about the fish Dora is drawn on TV, and the character is fictional. Thus, the author comes to the conclusion that the categorization of the world by the boy occurs on the basis of previous experience, as a result of his isolation from the outside world, the process of categorization is violated.</p>cognitive linguisticsconceptcategorizationcategoriescategorization of the worldnovelкогнитивная лингвистикаконцепткатегоризациякатегориикатегоризация мирароман[Dzyuba E.V. Kognitivnaya lingvistika. Ekaterinburg, 2018. 280 p. (in Russian).][Kubryakova E.S. Kratkii slovar' kognitivnykh terminov. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGOU, 1996. 245 p. (in Russian).][Rudakova A.V. Kognitologiya i kognitivnaya lingvistika. Voronezh: Istoki, 2004. 80 p. (in Russian).][Donoghue E. Room. Kindle Edition, 2010. 321 p.]