CORPUS DATA IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE STRUCTURE OF CULTURAL CONCEPTS

CORPUS DATA IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE STRUCTURE OF CULTURAL CONCEPTS

Author:  Kononova I.V.

Affiliation:  St-Petersburg State University of Economics

Abstract:  The paper views modern methods of analyzing the structure of a cultural concept and introduces a new approach adding to the most actual conceptions existing in modern linguistics. The author proposes a method for identifying the associative and value components of concepts basing on corpus data.

Keywords:  cultural concept, conceptual sphere, concept structure, сorpus data

References: 

Кононова И.В. Структура и языковая репрезентация британской национальной морально-этической концептосферы (в синхронии и диа- хронии): дис. ... д-ра филол. н. Санкт-Петербург: СПбГУЭФ, 2010. 361 с.
BNC – British National Corpus. URL: http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
LDCE – Longman dictionary of English language and culture. Harlow, London: Longman, 1992.

Pages:  547-549