CONCEPT AS THE BASIS OF THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

This article is devoted to the term “concept”, which is the core term of the conceptual apparatus of cultural linguistics. Its fundamental, multifaceted study presupposes the obligatory appeal of scientists to the analysis of the most different levels or tiers of language through the use of various research methods. The priority is the lexico-phraseological level of the language, in which the facts of the material and, accordingly, spiritual culture of a person are most clearly recorded in symbolic form; in general, the value orientations of a particular society are reflected, the system of its moral, ethical and aesthetic preferences, illustrating the features of the mentality of a particular linguocultural communities.