THE CONCEPT OF PATIENCE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD PICTURE

Abstract

The paper considers the definition and characteristics of concept within the main aspects of its study. The experience of working out the various approaches to the interpretation and formation of the concept is reflected. There are seven main aspects studying concepts: the logicalphilosophical, philosophical, linguistic, linguacultural, cognitive, psycholinguistic and literary and culturological. In fact, the philosophical tradition still treats the concept as the reduced knowledge about the world. From the point of view of epistemology, concepts are qualified as complex mental formations, opinions expressed in words, knowledge, faith, reason. As a part of the reflective theory, concepts are qualified as the meanings that human beings use in the process of internalization of knowledge about the environment. In the linguistic literature, the concept is considered as a universal entity, which is formed in consciousness on the basis of direct sensual experience, direct operations of a person with objects. Representatives of the linguistic-cultural approach interpret a concept as multidimensional semantic formation, in which value, figurative and conceptual aspects are distinguished. Any concept is realized in language units. We’ve made the semantic-etymological analysis of the word patience and come to the conclusion that semantic structure of the concept PATIENCE in English consists of the different meanings, forming the conceptual layer of the investigated concept. The concept PATIENCE is widely represented in English linguistic culture and the following basic features of the concept PATIENCE, which form its core are: 1) expectations; 2) endurance; 3) obedience; 4) suffering; 5) self-control; 6) exposure; 7) indulgence; 8) perseverance.