ЯВИЩЕ СЕМАНТИЧНОЇ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ КОНЦЕПТІВ ЧЕРЕЗ ПРИЗМУ КОГНІТИВНОГО ПІДХОДУ В СУЧАСНІЙ ФІЛОСОФІЇ МОВИ

Abstract

The article begins with a short historical insight of the philosophy of language precisely its formation and fi eld of study. The authors of the article emphasize that the cognitive approach plays an important role in solving the issues of modern philosophy of language, where the object of study is human consciousness, thinking, the mental processes and mindsets associated with them. In the fi eld of the cognitive approach of the modern philosophy of language, the problem of the creation and evolution of mental models is investigated through the coverage of certain linguistic-philosophical issues. Among the mentioned above, the problem of semantic, mental transformation of concepts is extremely relevant.The authors of the article consider it appropriate to conduct an analysis of the se-mantic transformation of some conceptual ideas at diff erent background levels, including religious, philosophical which have been do ne in comparison with modern perception.The article emphasizes that from the point of view of cognitive linguistics con-cepts are created and fi xed in the minds of native speakers as a result of processing and transforming mental representations with the help of linguistic phenomena. That is why the clarifi cation of the problem can be especially deep and reliable, if it is not limited to the observation of the textual material, however, it is based and supported by detailed linguistic studies in a comparative-historical aspect.It is obvious that the solution of such a complex issue involves the study of a large number of dictionaries and textual materials this problem solving must be supported by etymological analysis in various aspects. For the purpose of scientifi c substantiation, it is necessary to carry out the algorithm and methodology of etymological research taking into account the main criteria of analysis, among which there is phonetic, word-forming-semantic, chronological ones. They should take into account the peculiarities of deriva-tional processes, phonetic transformations associated with changes in the composition of the word, demotivation of the base of the word, morpheme simplifi cations. The analysis is based on etymological dictionaries and research works. Examples from Latin, Greek, English and other European languages are given in the morpheme-derivational comparisons while making analysis. To provide text illustrations, quota-tions from various sacred texts translated into Slavic languages have been used