The Metodology of Concept Structure Analysis: Cognitive and Linguoculturological Aspects
Fedoryuk Liliya · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2016
Background: The anthropocentric paradigm has set new challenges in the study of language, it requires new methods of analysis of these units and categories. Anthropocentric paradigm has developed a number of areas of research of the concepts: psychological, logical, philosophical, linguoculturological, cognitive. We investigate the concept of DEATH based on Ukrainian literature, so as the relevant ones for the research we consider cognitive and linguoculturological approaches. Purpose: The purpose of research is to analyze the most current methods of concepts study, to identify on which one of them the thesis “The Concept DEATH in the Ukrainian Сognitive-Linguistic World Picture: Structure, Statics and Dynamics” will be based. Results: The study of the concept DEATH in the thesis “The Concept DEATH in the Ukrainian Сognitive-Linguistic World Picture: Structure, Statics and Dynamics” will be based on the analysis techniques by M. Pimenova, Zh. Krasnobaieva-Chorna and V. Maslova mentioned above. We offer the phased analysis model of the concept DEATH: 1) identification of motivating features of the concept DEATH; 2) characteristics of conceptual features of the concept; 3) revealing of figurative conceptual features based on the Ukrainian literature of XIX – early XX and XX – early XXI centuries; 4) studying of symbolic features of the concept DEATH; 5) identification the ironic features of the concept; 6) analysis of associative experiment; 7) research of the concept DEATH scenarios, analysis of its components. Thus, within the cognitive and linguoculturological approaches, the most productive methods of the concept research are: modeling of semantic fields; method of contextual analysis; method of modeling and research of conceptual metaphors, and others. Discussion: Seven-stages analysis enables to obtain the most complete information about the structural specific of the concept DEATH, its place in the national conceptual sphere and the role in its carriers’ minds.