Linguocultural Concept Research Articles

Native word as the embodiment of the national spirit

In modern society, it is relevant to preserve the cultural-historical identity of Russia and the people’s moral values reflected in the mother tongue. Language plays an important social role since it is viewed as a social phenomenon that reflects the peculiarities of the national character and psychology of each nation as well as the changes taking place in society. The word embodies the national spirit and the national self-awareness of the people. Specific features of national culture, the people’s traditions are manifested in folklore, set expressions, works of art. The paper considers the basics of the content of the school Russian language course (i. e. Russian as a native language) which facilitate learners’ awareness of the native word as a tool for understanding the national picture of the world. The research has identified lexical units contributing to the formation of students’ values-based attitude to their native language and their role in the formation of a linguistic personality. These lexical units include phraseological units, small genres of folklore (riddles, proverbs, and sayings). The paper also characterises the linguocultural concept and the specific features of its analysis to cognize the national picture of the world. Mastering the mother tongue as a cultural phenomenon, schoolchildren conclude that the native language reflects the nature of the historical and intellectual development of society. Moreover, they realise it is the property of all people belonging to this society and a source of the nation’s unity and spirituality.

Dialogue Between Linguistics and Literary Studies

The trend towards interdisciplinary that characterizes the modern scientific paradigm requires the development of a common philological terminology. It is suggested that one of the interdisciplinary terms could be “artistic concept”. The article examines the relationship of this methodological construct with the image, on the one hand, and the linguocultural concept, on the other hand. The reality of the logical is the reality of the application of the logical, while the reality of the eidos is the direct manifestation of the essence in general. The concept can then be seen as a methodological construct, i. e. not ontologically, but epistemologically. This is why the immediate task of the philological sciences should be to deactualize the methodology of conceptual analysis in linguistics and to develop it in literary studies.

THE CONCEPT OF HOPE: SEMANTIC VARIANTIONS OF THE NAME

The article is devoted to the study of the Russian linguocultural concept ‘nadezhda’ (hope). A hypothesis is put forward about three semantic variations of nadezhda present in the Russian language: nadezhda 1 as the subject's belief in the possibility of improving the subject’s situation in the future, with two of its subspecies: ‘particular’ nadezhda 1.1 and ‘general’ nadezhda 1.2 ; nadezhda 2 as a source of improvement of the subject's situation; nadezhda 3 as a chance, an opportunity. An analysis of 500 examples from the Russian National Corpus was carried out. Most of the examples (about 93 %) contain nadezhda 1 , while nadezhda 2 and nadezhda 3 are quite rare. The problem in determining the correct sematic variation is the limited context of the sentences included in the corpus, potentially leading to incorrect attribution of nadezhda 1.1 as nadezhda 1.2 . There are possible contexts that make it difficult to choose between nadezhda 1.2 and nadezhda 3 ; in this, the syncreticity of the variations of nadezhda can be manifested as an inherent property.

MOTIVATIONAL FEATURES OF THE LINGUOCULTURAL CONCEPT TEXTILE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The article is dedicated to the investigation of the motivational features of the linguocultural concept TEXTILE in the English language. The investigation has been done within the framework of the cognitive scientific paradigm, namely, linguoconceptology and linguoculturology. Despite the large number of researches devoted to the study of motivational features of concepts in the English language, it should be admitted that the concept of TEXTILE still has not been properly investigated. According to the fact that the motivational features are understood as the internal form of the word, etymological analysis based on the comparative-historical method was used to identify them. The research was based on etymological dictionaries, general explanatory dictionaries of the English language and dictionaries of textile terminology. An etymological study of the English lexeme ‘textile’ revealed that its original form was a derivative from a Pre-Indo-European root meaning “to weave”. As a result of the study of the etymological dictionaries entries of the English language, 7 main motivational features of the studied concept were identified, namely: ‘canvas’, ‘cloth’, ‘fabric’, ‘texture’, ‘tissue', ‘web’ and ‘woven’. The source of the aforementioned English lexemes was both Germanic and Romance languages. Three of these lexemes come from Old French, namely ‘canvas’, ‘fabric’ and ‘tissue’; English lexemes ‘cloth’, ‘web’ and ‘weave (woven)’ come from Proto-Germanic; and the lexeme ‘texture’ is derived from Middle French. There is also a gradual increase in the volume of the concept structure due to the emergence of new components that reflect the current understanding of the concept under study. The prospect of the research is seen in further investigation of the verbalised concept of TEXTILE in the English language.

АНАЛИЗ АКСИОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ СОСТАВЛЯЮЩЕЙ КОНЦЕПТА СМЕХ В РУССКОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ПОСЛОВИЦ, ЛЕКСИКОГРАФИЧЕСКИХ И КОРПУСНЫХ ДАННЫХ)

Introduction. The concept of LAUGHTER is a significant linguocultural concept. The study of the axiological component in the meaning of the lexeme laughter as a key nomination of the concept LAUGHTER demonstrates the significance of this concept for Russian linguistic culture and contributes to the identification of invariant (universal) and specific (national) features in its content. The purpose of the article is to consider the value component in the structure of the concept LAUGHTER by analyzing the meaning of its representative – the lexeme laughter. Material and methods. The material for the analysis of the value component of the concept LAUGHTER in the national linguistic picture of the world was Russian proverbs, as well as data from lexicographic sources and the national corpus of the Russian language, in which the verbal marker of the concept appears – the lexeme “laughter”. Research methods: lexico-semantic, contextual, seme analysis, elements of linguoculturological and linguoconceptological analysis. Results and discussion. From the standpoint of subject correlation, laughter is short characteristic voice sounds that express various human feelings, from the point of view of conceptual correlation, laughter is a complex concept that correlates with reflection. The connotative component of the lexeme laughter is expressed in the seme appraisal. The specificity of the Russian national concept of laughter is the understanding of laughter as a way of expressing a contradictory assessment of someone else’s (including one’s own) actions, facts and phenomena of reality, from joy and fun to irony and ridicule. Laughter, in the view of native speakers of the Russian language, is a phenomenon whose axiological specificity lies in the property of ambivalence. Conclusion. The contextual analysis of the lexeme laughter as a nominee of the concept of the same name allows us to speak about the significance of the concept LAUGHTER for native speakers of the Russian language, since the lexeme laughter is used by the speaker as a means of assessing a particular situation. The value component of the LAUGHTER concept tends to vary: from a negative assessment of actions, facts, phenomena of reality to a neutral and positive one. The determining factors are the presence of subjective factors, as well as national-cultural and historical features of the development of the people. The national specificity of the concept LAUGHTER lies in the antinomy, paradoxical nature of the interpretation of laughter in the Russian language picture of the world.

Linguocultural concepts and stereotypes reflecting the aesthetic assessment of a human in the Russian and Uzbek proverbal picture of the world

Linguocultural concepts and stereotypes reflecting the aesthetic assessment of a human in the Russian and Uzbek proverbal picture of the world

СРЕДСТВА РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ КОНЦЕПТА «ДОМ» В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ПОДРОСТКОВОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ

The article focuses on the universal linguocultural concept «home», which is at the core of the Russian linguistic con-sciousness and is the organizing center of the world in Russian culture. The author analyzes the means of representing this concept in two works for teenagers: Dina Sabitova's novel Where There Is No Winter and Irina Myshkova's story Boys Don't Cry. The article aims to identify the structural and semantic features of the concept «home» in these works through their comparison with the traditional linguistic picture of the world. The analysis is based on the linguistic cogni-tive approach. The author concludes that the main meaning of the concept «home» in D. Sabitova's novel is associated with the teenager's discovery of his identity, finding his place (home) in this world. To represent this content, the novel uses numerous oppositions: comfort (peace of mind at home) – shelter (the appearance of comfort), doors (new oppor-tunities) – windows (protection from the outside world), close people – solitude, warmth – cold, old – new, love of home – formal family ties. The story Boys Don't Cry is built on different oppositions: corridor as a place of change – rooms as a place to hide from others; father's armpit – a landfill near Podmyshka; home (family) – comfortable apartment where strangers live; sincerity – pretentious well-being. Both stories are united by the idea that the way to your home and family is the way of growing up, realizing your responsibility to your close people, and that all members of the family must go this way.

The concept of crime: linguo-cultural representation and features of its translation (Maigret’s Failure by Georges Simenon case study)

Features of conceptualisation of behavioral responses and interaction of individual and collective consciousness become a subject of study in various fields of knowledge. The concept of crime refers to those fundamental and universal categories that reveal cognitive mechanisms at the level of relevant interaction with multiple concepts, national features of worldviews, cultural specifics, individual psychological experiences, and behavioral adaptation. The paper studies the linguo-cultural concept of crime in the Francophone detective novel “Maigret’s Failure” by the famous French writer of Belgian origin, Georges Simenon. The study aims to analyse the linguo-cultural representation, functional role, and verbal representation of the concept of crime in the detective novel “Maigret’s Failure” (French “Un échec de Maigret”) by Georges Simenon in the original text and translation. In order to achieve this, the article analyses the structural and genre features of a Francophone detective novel, specifies socio- cultural and lexical-semantic functions of the dominant concept of crime and defines the frame structure of the concept of crime. The translation of Mykola Meshcheriak was used for comparative translation analysis. The paper examines the functional representation of the concept of crime in a fictional narrative detective story and its translation equivalence. Frame analysis is used for this purpose. It makes it possible to investigate the relationship between lexical-semantic, stylistic, and cognitive components that reflect speakers’ worldviews. Four basic conceptual frames as crime, mystery, investigation, and punishment are identified in the study in order to examine the development of semantic components of the concept of crime in the fictional narrative. Each of them has segment slots. It is claimed that the feature of a detective novel depends on the conceptual frame the author prioritises and with what slots he completes it. For example, in accordance with the legal aspect, the dominant process may be crime – punishment; in the moral aspect, crime – motive. The lexical and stylistic elements of the concept of crime are not the only presented distinctive feature of the linguo-cultural connotation in the works of Georges Simenon. It is also the addition of various markers, distinguished by the author’s ironic and philosophical manner of portraying the main idea and therefore depicting the way of living and living conditions of the French burghers of that time. Commissioner Maigret’s arrogant and confident behavior involves all participants of the investigation process in interaction and assures of the inevitability of solving the crime. The development of the conflict, attention to detail, motives for behaviour, the silence of witnesses, empathy, and not just condemnation indicate the importance of understanding the cause-and-effect relationships of the commission of a crime rather than punishment. Comparative analysis of the original text and translation makes it possible to interpret legal relationships and extralinguistic information in the French and Ukrainian worldviews. Various features used to describe the concept of crime depend on the translation style rather than the ambiguity of interpretation. The stylistic elements of the concept are somewhat neutralised in compliance with the juridical nomination in the Ukrainian translation.

Лингвокультурный концепт РОДИНА сквозь призму восприятия региональной языковой личности: теоретические и прикладные аспекты исследования

Cognitive linguistics is a dynamically developing area of modern linguistics, which focuses on the problems of conceptualization and categorization of the surrounding reality. The linguo-cognitive analysis of the dominant mental units of the inner world of a person makes it possible to reveal the cultural constants and features of the national character reflected in them. Significant for the description of a holistic world model are the basic mentefacts, in which the unity of the conceptual, figurative and value components of the linguistic picture is manifested. One of the key concepts of the worldview of Belarusians is the concept of HOMELAND. The concept of HOMELAND belongs to the category of relational mental units, since the presence of a relation parameter is clearly traced in its structure. The article presents the results of the analysis of the concept HOMELAND, carried out on the material of the regional poetic discourse. 300 poetic texts created in the period from 2000 to 2021 by the poets of the Brest region were selected as linguistic material. The analysis is based on descriptive and linguoculturological research methods. The article deals with the conceptual, axiological and emotional levels of the concept. In the poetic text canvas, the linguocultural concept HOMELAND goes beyond the definition in lexicographic sources and acquires additional semantic characteristics. As a result of the analysis, it is proved that verbal toponymic dominants and linguistic ways of their representation determine the specifics of the manifestation of the concept of HOMELAND in the regional poetic discourse. Toponymic conceptual dominants and language units that verbalize them make it possible to determine the national and cultural specificity of the concept HOMELAND, reflected in the regional poetic space.

Mythological Concept as A Kind of Linguocultural Concept

Abstract: The mythological concept is considered in the work as a type of linguocultural concept, which is characterized by a three-part structure with a well-developed figurative, conceptual and mandatory value components. Keywords: mythological concept, linguocultural concept, mythological conceptual sphere, mytholexeme, lexical meaning, fairytale discourse.

НАЦІОНАЛЬНО-МОВНА КАРТИНА СВІТУ: ТРІАДА МОВА – КУЛЬТУРА – ЛЮДИНА

In this article the anthropocentric approach to the study of the national language picture of the world through the prism of linguistic and cultural interaction is offered; the role of non-equivalent vocabulary in the language and conceptual picture of the world is determined due to the theoretical and methodological principles of the linguocultural aspect of research. The accentuation of the human factor as one of the central ones in anthropocentric linguistics brings to the fore the need to study the problems of describing the language structure, as well as the tasks of comprehensive study of the language personality, capable of generating and understanding speech. The establishing of the relationship between the language and culture on the example of non-equivalent vocabulary promotes the revealing of the national cultural specifics of the researched units, and defining universal phenomena, that are inherent in each individual national cultural community. The linguocultural research involves in-depth study of language units, the semantic structure of which is marked by national specifics. The relevance of this research is defined by contrastive and typological approach to the analysis of language signs, especially non-equivalent linguistic material. Various mechanisms of the language and culture interaction on the example of non-equivalent vocabulary are studied, taking into account the urgency of this research, which is determined by the interest in modern linguistic works to the investigation of linguocultural concepts actualization in the process of сoncept space modeling.

ЛІНГВОКУЛЬТУРОЛОГІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ СЕМАНТИЧНОЇ СТРУКТУРИ СТІЙКИХ ВИСЛОВЛЮВАНЬ З АНТРОПОНІМІЧНИМИ КОМПОНЕНТАМИ

In this article a linguocultural approach to the study of phraseology through the prism of linguistic and cultural interaction is offered; the role of set expressions with anthroponymic components in the language picture of the world is determined; the theoretical and methodological bases of the linguocultural aspect of set expressions with anthromonymic components researches are studied. It is the linguocultural aspect of the study of such language units as stable expressions, which include anthroponyms, that contributes to the identification of spiritual, moral, ethical values of each separate national and cultural community, making it possible to establish the interaction of language and culture, in particular, including determining the national specifics of investigated languages, and the separation of universal phenomena inherent in them. This research is based on the main idea of modern anthropocentric linguistics, that the human is in the focus of attention. It should be mentioned, that it is necessary to highlight the anthropocentric substratum of modern philological studies of phraseology, and their orientation on the investigating the phraseological semantics. In addition, it’s important to identify various mechanisms of the language and culture interaction on the example of set expressions with anthroponymic components, taking into account that the universal and national specific characteristics, reflected in such phraseological signs, are not fully studied (the centuries old historical memory of the nation, its psychology, mentality, social practice, economic and political structure etc.). The urgency of this study is determined by the ever increasing interest in modern linguistic researches to the theory of intertext, in particular, to the investigation of intertextual phraseology as an actualization of linguocultural concepts in the process of concept space modeling. The relevance of this article is defined by contrastive and typological approach to the analysis of linguistic material – set expressions with anthroponymic components, their intertextual connections and specifics of understanding. It serves to facilitate the identification of typological patterns and trends, and culturally stipulated interlingual differences of the language conceptualization expression in different ethnic groups. The feasibility of set expressions conceptual analysis is explained by scientific interest to the theory of intertextuality as a linguistic category, which will contribute to the accession of scientific studies in intertext, hypertext, precedentness, text typology etc.

UNDERLYING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COGNITIVE AND LINGUOCULTURAL CONCEPTS IN THE FIELD OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUOCULTUROLOGY

The article attempts to present a thorough analyses of concept from the position of two linguistic perspectives. The notion of concept is shared property and means of representation for both linguoculturology and cognitive linguistics. The concept is viewed as a mental representation, fragments from human life experience, abstract and rational categories shaped in the individual’s world picture. Having numerous ways of representation through language units in language, concepts create conceptual spaces and are classified into universal, national and individual divisions. A substantial and perspicuous explanation is presented in the given article, first to throw light on different angles of research of cognitive linguistics and linguoculturology; secondly, to develop thorough methodological comparative evaluation which outlines major similarities and differences between linguocultural and cognitive concepts. A comparative analysis allows to conclude that the value component reflected in national collective mentality is considered as the most significant aspect of linguocultural concept; while, cognitive concepts are inextricably intertwined with linguocultural concepts, the focal point of the study is directed to the investigation of processes of human cognition and information processing along with the attempt to identify the major concepts that help to organize conceptual world picture.

Axiological density of the linguocultural concept

The article is devoted to determining the factors of axiological features of cognitive forms. The main approaches related to the evaluation specification of linguistic and cultural concepts (structural and semantic) are outlined and analyzed. It is explained that the structural features of the linguo-cultural concept (historical and actual layers, domains and modular parts, nuclear and near-nuclear zone) determine its axiological features. The structure of the representation of knowledge is evaluative specified by the characteristics of its name (internal form, in equivalence, denotation and connotation, etc.). It is argued that the axiological characteristics of the concept are determined by external factors: belonging to one or different cultures, a particular subculture, the amount of collective historical, subjective emotional, and concrete-sensory experience, position on other concepts, rooted in the system of background knowledge, carrier mentality, stereotypes, as well as subjects of material and spiritual culture, etc. The term “axiological density of linguistic and cultural concept” was introduced into scientific circulation and an algorithm for its definition was proposed with the help of an integrative approach. Based on this algorithm, the modal (axiological) component of the linguistic and cultural concept of “time” in the poetic discourse of the 20th-21st centuries is analyzed.

Representation of SIBERIA Linguocultural Concept in the English Fiction of the 18th – early 20th Centuries

The article describes and systematizes the constants and cultural codes of SIBERIA, a linguocultural concept, through the case of British and American linguistic cultures. Mythologization of SIBERIA, built on the «friend-or-foe» dualism, reveals similarities with the mythologeme of the «World Tree» (an inner cultural space of the people’s cosmic world of firmness, desire to build the «middle world», opposite to the «lower world» of nature, vast territories, extreme cold, giantism, and terrifying social conditions). The permanent and variable elements of SIBERIA, represented in the artistic discourse, are considered; the explication found in some English works of the 18th – 20th centuries are investigated for their frequency and, further, classified

The linguocultural concept based on word frequency: correlation, differentiation, and cross-cultural comparison

ABSTRACT This paper proposes (1) to develop mixed research framework for linguocultural concept analysis by integrating word frequency analysis using Google Books Ngram Viewer with Pearson correlation, word collocation, integrating qualitative analysis; and (2) to determine its feasibility and effectiveness with regards to correlation, cross-cultural comparison, and differentiation of linguocultural concepts. Findings suggest that war may be one of the contributing factors to the religious consciousness of the Russian people (r = 0.471, p < 0.001). The results of the collocation analysis suggest that ‘freedom’ has boundaries, whilst the ‘will’ has none. A cross-cultural study of Chinese and American cultures revealed that the consciousness of sacrifice was stronger than that of obedience. In addition, frequencies of conceptual words show that China has a stronger collectivist culture as compared to the United States. However, it is difficult to obtain a correct and credible statement of conceptual differences only by relying on word frequency.

РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦІЯ КОНЦЕПТУ WAR В АНГЛОМОВНІЙ ЛІНГВОКУЛЬТУРІ

The features of verbalization and structuring of the concept war on the material of the artistic discourse in English language culture are revealed in the article. It is found out how the conceptualization has led to its development. At the beginning of the 20th century, international relations have dramatically changed in the world. There is a risk that people of different worldviews may interpret certain military notions (in particular the linguocultural concept WAR) otherwise. The solution of this complex problem of ambiguity must be sought in the etymology of the linguocultural concept WAR and its lexical field. The concept of WAR is vividly expressed in the English-language picture of the world, and its expression has a deep national and cultural specificity. Subject-image, conceptual and value components can be distinguished in the structure of this concept. The semantic field of the WAR concept consists of the kernel (the "State of Armed Conflict" microfield) and the semantic periphery objectified by the "Situation of Antagonism" and "Art of War" microfields. The main lexical verbalizers of the WAR concept were also identified. These include the war token itself, as well as the corresponding synonymous tokens and lexical associations. A new understanding of the concept of WAR is observed within the English-language artistic and journalistic discourses, which is realized in the system of conceptual metaphors. The concept war in the artistic discourse of participants is a multidimensional mental formation, very complex, encompassing radically opposite meanings. It is clear that the sense of the concept includes components that are associated with death, agitation, pain, horror, depression and more. At the same time the structure of the concept includes extremely positive meanings that can be verbalized in such words as life, love, honesty, help, heroism. For each war, it carries something personal, but always war is when the heart aches.

Functionality of the synonyms of nuclear lexemes “Pravda (truth) / Verite}” in the Russian and French Literary texts

The goal of this article consists in carrying out a semantic analysis of the synonyms of nuclear lexemes &amp;ldquo;Pravda (truth)/ Verite&amp;rdquo; in the Russian and French literary texts. The subject of this research is the semantics of lexemes representing the concept of &amp;ldquo;Truth&amp;rdquo; in the Russian and French languages. Very few works in the modern linguistics are dedicated to comparative study of the concept of &amp;ldquo;Truth&amp;rdquo; in the Russian and French literary texts, which defines the relevance of this article. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the author is first to examine functionality of the synonyms of nuclear lexemes &amp;ldquo;Pravda (truth) / Verite&amp;rdquo; in the Russian and French literary texts, as well as to determine the composition of meanings and dynamics of their development in these lexemes. The article employs the comparative and quantitative methods, semantic analysis, and modeling. In both languages the concept of &amp;ldquo;Pravda (truth) / Verite&amp;rdquo; implies such notions as: &amp;ldquo;Honesty&amp;rdquo;, &amp;rdquo;Fairness&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Sincerity&amp;rdquo;, &amp;rdquo;Reality&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Veracity&amp;rdquo;. The conclusion is made that in the Russian and French literary texts, the linguocultural concept of &amp;ldquo;Truth&amp;rdquo; is reflected in its primary meaning &amp;ndash; "Honesty&amp;rdquo;. The distinctive feature is the in the Russian texts it is used as &amp;ldquo;Veracity&amp;rdquo;, while in the French &amp;ndash; as &amp;ldquo;Fairness&amp;rdquo;, which emphasizes the specificity of mentality reflected in the linguistic worldview.

Основные ценности свадебных традиций и представление концепта «свадьба» языковыми средствами

This work is devoted to the linguo-cognitive and linguocultural study of the concept of "wedding". The concept as a universal category plays a very important role in the culture of every nation; in all languages they reflect not only universal concepts, but also completely different meanings and properties of the objective world, which explains their different manifestations in language. The linguistic picture of the world influences people and forms their linguistic consciousness, and with them their cultural and national identity. The influence of cultural and human factors on the formation and functioning of various linguistic units (lexemes, free and non-free phrases or idioms, and even texts) are culturally marked in the content, which is embodied in national connotations. This study illustrates a comparative study of wedding traditions reflected in English, Russian and Kyrgyz cultural linguistics. Marriage, being a universal human “universal” - the only possible form of social life, although extremely variable, has a national specificity. Marriage is a mirror that reflects the social, legal, demographic and cultural aspects of the life of peoples. It shows the complex palette of the social relations system. The relevance of this study is due to a number of factors: the high importance of the linguocultural concept "wedding" for the Russian, English and Kyrgyz cultures; the lack of existing research approaches to the description of the highlighted concept; the need for a detailed and comprehensive study of this concept, which is a fragment of a separate concept sphere. The aim of the research is a linguo-cognitive and linguocultural analysis of the universal concept “wedding”, which is actualized in correlated fragments of Russian, English and Kyrgyz cultures.

КОНЦЕПТ «БЭЮМЭКИТ / ОХОТА» В ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА ЭВЕНКОВ

Preserving the Evenki concept sphere is one of the most important tasks of modern Evenki studies. The current study is a contribution to the task. This article considers the linguocultural concept of Beyumekit 'Hunt' in the linguistic picture of the Evenki world. Material for analysis was selected from bilingual dictionaries, a comparative dictionary of the Tungus-Manchu languages, as well as from texts written from modern Evenki speakers. More than 200 lexical units representing the concept were analyzed and distributed into 6 groups: 1) hunter, 2) fur animals; 3) hoofed animals, 4) hunting place, 5) dog (hunter assistant), 6) verbs denoting hunting process. Groups 2 and 3 turned out the most frequent. The results showed that the concept is basic in the consciousness of the Evenki, reflecting their worldview. It is concluded that hunting is perceived as one of the most important traditional activity, and the concept of Beyumekit 'hunt' is the basic one in the linguistic picture of the Evenki world as well as in the speakers of other Manchu-Tungus languages.