Integrated Approach to the Research of Concept Structure

   The article deals with linguistic and experimental research methods of paremiological area of interpretive field of the concept “money” and identifies cognitive indicators interpreting the concept in the Russian language. The linguistic research method involves the use of paremiological dictionaries and collections of aphorisms, since vivid evidence of national-specific aspects of conceptualization is found in the vocabulary that explicates the features of the values of a particular linguistic community. The research of Russian proverbial fund, in particular paroemias, nominating various properties of money, with the method of cognitive interpretation, allowed us to identify the characteristic features of paroemias objectifying the concept in the Russian linguistic culture. Special attention is paid to conducting of the experimental study with the participation of modern native speakers which allows the author to draw conclusions about the relevance of the phenomenon under consideration as well as the specifics of its comprehension by modern native speakers. The experiment of verification and clarification of proverbs and sayings for native Russian speakers allowed us to indicate the values of modern representatives of this linguistic and cultural community that are substantially formed by the current economic situation and mentality of the nation, as well as to observe the positioning of the presented linguistic manifestations in terms of intensity in the consciousness of the Russian people. Integrated approach enables to reveal Russian speakers’ attitude tо the phenomenon and to identify possible “shifts” in the structure and content of the concept during its functioning in the consciousness of representatives of the linguistic culture and supplement the previously proposed by the author model of the concept “money” in the Russian language.

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