TO THE PROBLEM OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL CONCEPTS STRUCTURE WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL CONCEPT SPHERE OF A TEXT

TO THE PROBLEM OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL CONCEPTS STRUCTURE WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL CONCEPT SPHERE OF A TEXT

Author:  I.V. Kononova

Affiliation:  St.Petersburg State University of Economics

Abstract: 
The paper views the approach to the analysis of the cultural concept structure, developing the most actual conceptions in modern cognitive linguistics. It also illus-trates the application of the mentioned approach in the analysis of the transformations of the cultural concepts structure within the individual concept sphere of a text. The author introduces the notion of the mediated associating process that reflects the nature of the most significant structural transformations that a concept may undergo under the influence of the personality of a writer.

Keywords:  concept, concept sphere, concept structure, cognitive poetics, associative layer of a concept

Pages:  169-179