Notional features of concept GENIUS in the English language
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the investigation of the peculiarities of verbalization of the concept GENIUS in the English language. The research presents main aspects of the study of the phenomenon of genius in philosophy and psychology; analyzes definitions of the lexical unit “genius” in the English dictionaries; singles out notional conceptual features of the analyzed concept in the English language. According to Z.D. Popova and J.S. Sternin, representatives of the semantic-cognitive approach, concept is a basic unit of human mental code which has an internal structure consisting of conceptual features; it is the result of the individual and social learning of the world. Conceptual features contain comprehensive information about the corresponding object or phenomenon as well as the interpretation of information of public consciousness and the treatment of the subject or phenomenon. Thus, the representatives of this trend treat language as one of the main tools of cognition and conceptualization of the world. The study of concept through the language is the most reliable way of linguistic analysis which allows to detect conceptual features and to work out the model of the concept. Any analysis of the concept starts by detecting language units that represent a given concept, their interpretation and vocabulary speech contexts. The structure of any concept includes notional, figurative and evaluative features. The etymology of the lexical unit “genius” has been studied as well as the structure of its semantic meaning. The internal form of this nomination foregrounds the irrational component of the concept. The following notional conceptual features of GENIUS in the English language have been singled out: intellectual power; creative power; uncommon, exceptional superiority; originality.
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Л. В. Строченко
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