Verbalization of the Complex Concept Word/Language/Speech from Dual Linguistics Perspective

Abstract

The verbalization of the concept WORD / LANGUAGE / SPEECH is a complex phenomenon is viewed from the point of view of a new humanitarian branch – dual linguistics, a combination of scientific and naive interpretation of language in the contemporary English lexicography. Language means verbalizing and explaining such interrelated notions as language, word, and speech, constitutes a mosaic-like unity of nominative units fixed in current lexicographic resources. It is proved that the interpretation of this particular phenomenon in the conceptual and linguistic pictures of the world of an average speaker and professional linguist is radically different. The dual linguistics perspective makes it possible to distinguish the two nominative fields of the studied concept: one for the naive and the other for the scientific pictures of the world. Factual data of the study that has been analyzed were drawn, respectively, on the one hand, from general (explanatory) and, on the other hand, special (linguistic) dictionaries of the English language. The primary task of this research is to describe the nuclear zone of the nominative field of the concept WORD/ LANGUAGE / SPEECH, which presupposes the naïve and scientific understanding of language through the prism of English lexicography.