Modeling Of The Conceptual Field “Communication” in Russian

Aim. COMMUNICATION as a sociolinguistic concept is being investigated in order to determine its core and periphery means of semantic space expression. Methodology. In the course of the research, the methods of component, lexicographic and seme analysis with selecting of the semes and sememes of the concept of COMMUNICATION were used, as well as cognitive and empirical analysis of semantic principles of this conceptual field. Results. Based on the results of the analysis of dictionary sources (“Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language” by S. I. Ozhegov, “The Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” by S. A. Kuznetsov, “The Great Universal Dictionary of the Russian Language”, etc.) and real language materials, it can be determined that in the structure of conceptual field of COMMUNICATION the core and periphery (immediate and further) are distinguished. There are 4 components in the core: “the relationship between subjects or objects”, “communication”, “connection of something”, “acquaintance”, while its near and far periphery include the dominant semes of each semantic group: “interpersonal relationship”, “inner unity between people”, “objective relationship” (the far periphery: love affair, kinship, friendship, inner connection between reader and writer, logical connection, indirect connection, etc.); “communication between somebody-something”, “technical means of communication”, “department providing communication” (distant peripherals: intercity communication, district communication, telephone, Internet, communication service mail, communication channel, communication department, etc.); “mutual attraction”, “cohesion”, “part of a building structure” (the far periphery: the connection of atoms in a molecule, clay for stones, structure, etc.); “useful acquaintance” (the far periphery: an influential person, patronage, fraud, etc.). Research implications. The concept of COMMUNICATION in the Russian language is one of the basic in the system of socio-cultural values of a person. This is due to the fact that COMMUNICATION as a linguistic phenomenon affects a person’s mentality throughout his/ her social life. In the Russian language, many linguistic problems of modern cognitive and sociolinguistic practices remain understudied. The results of the research can be used in describing the cognitive characteristics of concepts, as well as in teaching linguistic courses “Modern Russian language” (“Lexicology”), “Cognitive Linguistics”, “Cultural Language Studies”, “Linguistic text analysis”, “Philological text analysis”.