Contents
INTRODUCTIONI. The concept and the significance in modern linguistics
.1 The concept as the fundamental conception of cognitive linguistics
1.2The problem of the definition between the concept and the significance
CONCLUSIONS TO PART III. Cultural and linguistic features of the use of animalism to the concept BIRD in English and Ukrainian
.1 The use of animalism to the concept BIRD in English idioms
.2 The use of animalism to the concept BIRD in Ukrainian phraseological unitsTO PART IICONCLUSIONSLIST OF LITERATURE USED
Introduction
the second half of the last century the language as an active intermediary between the world of reality and human consciousness enters the field of view of many experts in linguistics which is related to such scientific disciplines: logic, ethnologists , psychologists, culture and so on. This confirms that the solution of numerous fundamental questions (egthe question of the categorization of the world, the ratio of language and mind) cannot be found within any private science.Thereby, a number of promising areaswithin the anthropocentric paradigm isdistinguished: cognitive linguistics ( GI Berestiyev, N. Boldyrev, VZ Demianko, ESKubryakova, George Lakoff, Z. Popova, EVRahylina, IA Stersh), psycholinguistics (V. Krasnykh, AALeontiev), cultural studies (ENVereschahin, VG Kostomarov, BA Maslov, S . Stepanov, NVUfimtseva, ATHrolenko), ethnolinguistics (ASGerd, N. Tolstoy), etnohermeneutics (EAPimenov, MVPimenov). of the main purposes while describing the language is the study of linguistic picture of the world. In addition to that the language is seen as a means of design and the implementation of knowledge about the world, both external and internal.central term in the study of language world is a concept that attracted the attention of many researchers: linguists, culture and philosophers. However, the term concept in modern science of language has no monosemantic interpretation: that is to solve the problem of classification of concepts, methods to study the structure of the concept and its place in a number of linguistic terminology. The divisiveness of the status of the concept suggests, first of all, the difficulty of forming a new scientific paradigm.concept is a process of awareness and anunderstanding of a concept. The greatest interest in terms of research represents that concepts play an important role in the life of the ethnic group.work is a substantial investigation which aim is to describe the specific language representation of the concept BIRD in English and Ukrainian paintings of the world as from the language point of view as well as from a cultural one. Together with a wide range of theoretical developments, it is appeared a large number of works, which comprise specific descriptions of certai...