CATEGORIZATION OF LINGUISTIC MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITY «RUSSIAN» (AS OF NATION), «RUSSIAN» (AS OF STATE), «SOVIET»)

CATEGORIZATION OF LINGUISTIC MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITY «RUSSIAN» (AS OF NATION), «RUSSIAN» (AS OF STATE), «SOVIET»)

Author:  T.V. Romanova

Affiliation:  Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A.Dobrolubov

Abstract: 
The article discusses linguistic means of reconstructing social / national identity «Russian» (as of nation), «Russian» (as of state), «Soviet». Special features of objectivation and categorization of conceptual contents with the help of the above mentioned linguistic means are described. Frame and matrix formats of knowledge, which is the contents of the concepts verbalized with the adjectives «Russian» (as of nation), «Russian» (as of state), «Soviet», are given.

Keywords:  national and social identity, conceptualization, categorization, linguistic objectivation of conceptual contents