Abstract
This paper analyzes a series of terms – “concept”, “notion”, “meaning”, which are closely related to each other and constantly interact in modern linguistics. The applicability of this work is apparent, since its matter is characterized by a certain terminological ambiguity. Distinction of these terms is necessary to ascertain their roles in the acquisition, comprehension and expression of knowledge about the real world. The article reviews the main theoretic issues of cognitive and cultural linguistics and reviews the Russian and foreign literature on the subject of the study. Researchers observe both unifying and distinctive characteristics of these concepts. The author’s opinion is that “lexical meaning”, “notion” and “concept” are different terms. They are interrelated, but not equivalent. It seems reasonable that they belong to similar categories of thinking but are taken in different systems of relationships. The article is addressed to linguists, lecturers of linguistic disciplines, postgraduates and students of relevant specialties.
Highlights
The term “concept” is one of the most complicated ideas in cognitive linguistics; it is quite difficult to be defined
A word is understood as a semantic content reflected in a lexical form and revealed in a dictionary entry; a concept is the cognitive content reflected in the same lexical form
The representation of a concept in a language is usually attributed to a word, and the word itself gets the status of the concept name – the linguistic sign reproducing the concept content in the fullest and most adequate way
Summary
The term “concept” is one of the most complicated ideas in cognitive linguistics; it is quite difficult to be defined. The term has been broadly interpreted and regarded as ambiguous in the social sciences and humanities. It was introduced with a certain degree of pathos and sometimes through a cognitive metaphor: it was called “a multi-dimensional cluster of sense”, “a semantic slice of life” [10], “a gene of culture” [31], etc. The term “concept” is widely used in various fields of linguistics. It has entered into the notional system of cognitive, semantic, and cultural linguistics [11]. Pimenova) point out the need to differentiate the terms “concept”, “notion” and “meaning”, because differentiation is necessary for establishing their roles in the processes of acquisition, comprehension and expression of knowledge about reality
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