CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY CULTURE AND MEANS OF ITS VERBALIZATION (BASED ON FANTASY NOVELS BY AMERICAN AND BRITISH WRITERS)
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue
Abstract
Many researchers have been making emphasis to the problems of categorization and conceptualization of reality, as well as the means of its verbalization. It is evident that categorization and conceptualization processes interdepend on and interrelate to each other. The leading purpose of this article is to specify and analyze of the structure of the conceptual category CULTURE and means that are used to verbalize it in the fantasy novels. The data for this research is collected from 50 fantasy novels written by British and Americans authors within the period from 1977 to 2013. The data includes 1050 nominative units, such as neologisms / occasionalisms, word combi- nations, phrases, and sentences utilized by American and British authors to either name or characterize different specific features of possible worlds culture described in their fantasy novels. Culture is an essential area of human activity closely connected with specific knowledge, skills, experiences, etc. The category CULTURE is one of the basic categories of human existence not only in the real world but also in the possible one. According to the research results, the conceptual category CULTURE has a complex hierarchical structure. The sub-categories Magic comprises about 73% (531) of nominative units analyzed in the following research. The writers create innovations to either describe or name specific peculiarities of possible worldsє culture. Characteristics of fantasy discourse in general or any of fantasy writers in particular can become the focus of further studies.
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Ірина Володимирівна Александрук
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