Relating to the Semantic Analysis of the Concept Human in the Structure of the Phraseological Field

Abstract

The language is able to provide information about the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the objective world in the conceptual system of a person. Within the framework of the field approach, which is used in the work, the meanings that construct the associative component of the concept are analyzed, since it is iso-morphic to the lexical-semantic field that represents it. The section presents the fea-tures of the inner world of a person through the analysis of the semantics of phraseological units. The relevance of the study is due to the need to study and describe the concept of a person in phraseology from the standpoint of the anthropological paradigm of linguistics. The subject of scientific analysis is the concept of a person, verbalized in the phraseology of the Russian language. The methodological basis of the work is an anthropocentric approach to the study of the content of linguistic phenomena, which necessitates the use of linguistic, cognitive and culturological methods of analyzing linguistic material in the dialectical unity. The authors set a goal - to describe the characterological features of the concept under study, the way of their manifestation as a means of reflecting the image of a person. It is shown that anthropocentrically nominative phraseological units in pragmatic terms act as semiotic regulators, fixing and reflecting in a figurative-symbolic form a model of human behavior, features of his appearance, character traits, traditions and customs of the people, a system of assessments of everything that forms the phraseological space of a person. The process of phraseological nomination of a person is based on phraseological rethinking. One of the most important characteristics of a phraseological unit for designating a person is semantic motivation, since phraseological units are linguistic signs formed as a result of a secondary nomination. As a mental phenomenon, language is assigned the role of one of the methods of coding known forms of cognition: both sensory (perception, sensation, representation) and rational (judgments, concepts, conclusions). It is shown that the mentality of the people is actualized in the most significant linguistic concepts of culture, the main task of which is to reflect national priorities and ideals. The content of the concept of a person includes not only actual perceived semantic components associated with a word (phraseological unit), but also signs that reflect the general information base about a person, his knowledge of an object or phenomenon. It is brought that the phraseological concept is a discrete, semantic volumetric unit of thinking or memory, which reflects the culture of the people, and the meaning is part of the concept; concept refers to cognitive consciousness, and meanings refer to linguistic consciousness.