Semantic Representatives of the Concept

In the article concept as one of the principle notions of cognitive linguistics is investigated. Considering concept as culture phenomenon, having language realization and ethnocultural peculiarities, the description of the concept “happiness” is presented. Lexical and semantic paradigm of the conce...

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Main Authors: Elena N. Tsay, Olessya V. Tkachenko
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Academic Publishing House Researcher 2013-01-01
Series:Evropejskij Issledovatelʹ
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Online Access:http://www.erjournal.ru/pdf.html?n=1371290404.pdf
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Summary:In the article concept as one of the principle notions of cognitive linguistics is investigated. Considering concept as culture phenomenon, having language realization and ethnocultural peculiarities, the description of the concept “happiness” is presented. Lexical and semantic paradigm of the concept of happiness correlates with a great number of lexical and semantic variants. In the work semantic representatives of the concept of happiness, covering supreme spiritual values are revealed and semantic interpretation of their functioning in the Biblical discourse is given.
ISSN:2219-8229
2224-0136