MAKING MEANING OF MORALITY AS AN AXIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON

Abstract

The article provides a comprehensive view of the axiological phenomenon of morality from the perspectives of philosophy, ethics, cultural linguistics; it analyses its conceptualized form as a lexical concept MORALITY, examines its meaning, dynamics and peculiarities of its verbalization within the context of the poem The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh. The claim of the research is that the meaning of a lexical concept is dynamic, versatile, culture-specific and context-dependent. Principle of lexical decomposition is used to determine the basic internal structure of the concept. Next, the paper uses the approach of cognitive semantics and Cognitive Metaphor Theory to attempt and examine the meaning and dynamics of the lexical concept MORALITY in the context of literary text.

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O. Ye. Vuiek

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O. Ye. Vuiek (2017). MAKING MEANING OF MORALITY AS AN AXIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія», 28(), 97-101. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-461965