WORD AND ITS “CONCEPTUAL CAPACITY”

WORD AND ITS “CONCEPTUAL CAPACITY”

Author:  V.A. Gureyev

Affiliation:  International University in Moscow

Abstract: 
The article concerns the representation of various types of concepts by a notional word, putting special emphasis on its huge concept representation potential; it also points out some of the reasons for this phenomenon. The fact that a concept is represented mainly by a word “plunged” in a certain context of discourse is also taken notice of.

Keywords:  word, concept, types of concepts, conceptual system, meaning, context