THE ANALYSIS OF CONCEPT ”FASHION” AT LEXICAL LEVEL

Аннотация

The methodology of conceptual analysis plays an important role in cognitive interpretation of texts. A concept is a cognitive unit of meaning or a mental symbol sometimes defined as a “unit of knowledge”. It is typically associated with a corresponding representation in a language. In this article there is showed how to mark the main stages of the analysis of the concept, based on the semantic-cognitive method. The analysis showed that the conceptual core of the Fashion / Moda / Мода shown cognitive-conceptual signs, which can be roughly divided into linguistic and philosophical and religious areas. Dedicated linguistic area mainly forms the conceptual core of the concept of Fashion / Moda / Мода that is because the “fashion” in all languages is the central mean of styles. Due to the fact that the majority of dictionary words as linguistic interpretation unit is basically the same in the three languages studied, we will consider the dictionary definition based on the English language.