Frame Modeling of The Linguocultural Concept “Religion”

Abstract

The article analyzes the concept “religion” as a unit of knowledge that allows verbally expressing the national and cultural specificity of the language, and also defines this concept as a category of universal human values. The difference between the concept and the concept is indicated, where the concept is formed against the background of experience, as well as on the cognition and logical understanding of reality, and the concepts are designated as real phenomena contained in the general symbolic expression and lexical definitions of objects. The concept is presented in the form of an extensive formation that reflects the general nature of the surrounding reality, which contains the characteristics and values of society. The aim of the work is to analyze the manifestation at the contextual level of the linguocultural concept “religion / religion” in English and Russian. To consider the concept, frame modeling was used as the most universal model that helps to reveal the essence of the concept under consideration. According to this analysis, it was indicated that the structure of the concept is multifaceted and includes several meaningful frames.