SPEECH REALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT A WORK OF GENIUS IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD VIEW

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the investigation of the verbalization of the concept A WORK OF GENIUS in the world view of the English-speaking society. The proposed study was performed within the framework of linguogenionics, which examines the interpretation of the phenomenon of genius in language in general and in English in particular. The study is based on specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias, English scientific texts, as well as the British National Corpus. Special linguistic methods used in the study include definitional, componential analysis, which together with the use of contextual-interpretative method allowed conducting a conceptual analysis aimed at identifying the structure of the concept A WORK OF GENIUS in the scientific world view. The analysis of scientific publications allowed singling out the peripheral features of the studied concept in the English scientific picture of the world, namely: relevance, importance, time trial, mystery, usefulness, polysensity, universality. The English conceptual field GENIUS consists of three segments connected by a cyclic relationship. Each of these segments is denoted by a corresponding nuclear concept: GENIUS as a phenomenon, GENIUS as a person, and A WORK OF GENIUS. The ontological cycle consists of the following three parts: 1) a person endowed with 2) the gift of genius creates 3) a masterpiece that is recognized as a work of genius (in art or science), and this gives its creator the status of a genius. The relatively small amount of peripheral features of all nuclear concepts in the scientific picture of the world is accounted for by the fact that in scientific discourse the most frequent conceptual features are nuclear components. We see the prospect of the research in the possibility of further studies of geniuses in the paradigm of linguopersonology, contrastive linguistics and psycholinguistics.