LАNGUAGEUNITS IN THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF “WOMAN” IN MODERN UKRAINIAN LINGUISTIC CULTURE

Abstract

We tried to structure the concept of “woman”, based on a hierarchy of elements of the studied conceptual structure, which contains such elements as the microconcept “CHARACTERISTICS OF APPEARANCE” within which the researcher considers the conceptual aspect of “Appearance”, microconcept “ВIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS” (conceptual aspect “Age”), microconcept “SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MAN”. The concept of woman in artistic discourse is revealed through numerous descriptions of mental and emotional states of women, through descriptions of their communication and others. In addition, the content of the concept is implemented by language tools to denote the external characteristics of women. In the linguistic picture of the Ukrainian world, the representation of a woman’s appearance is realized by describing an aesthetic parameter that expresses the idea of Ukrainians about the universal sign of existence - beauty, which is distinguished in the process of expressive-aesthetic development of reality. The object of the description of a woman’s appearance is her smile and look, posture, manner of behavior, hair, lips, hands, etc. In the process of analysis, we found that an important characteristic of a woman is her age. In the artistic discourse that has become the object of analysis, it singles out a significant number of microcontexts with the characteristics of women according to their age. Regarding the characteristics of a woman according to her social roles, here we observe the evaluation of a woman depending on her social status – married / unmarried, as well as on her social roles of wife, daughter, mother. The linguistic means used by writers to verbalize this structural element of the concept of woman contain paremias that indicate an inseparable connection between a married couple, thus actualizing the concept of man, which is a doublet concept for the concept of woman. The research suggests that the concept of woman in modern artistic discourse is a multifaceted and multicomponent phenomenon.