THE COMPLEX CONCEPT WORD / LANGUAGE / SPEECH FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF DUAL LINGUISTICS

Abstract

The article deals with specific features of the process of verbalization of the complex concept WORD / LANGUAGE / SPEECH from the point of view of a new humanitarian direction – dual linguistics, which is treated in this research as a combination scientific and naive interpretation of language in the English lexicography. The concept is understood as a content unit of collective conscience, which reveals the subject of ideal world that is preserved in national memory of native speakers. The process of verbalization is presented as a mosaic-like complex of nominative units fixed in lexicographic recourses that verbalize and explain such phenomena as language, word, speech and other similar notions. It is defined that the interpretation of the phenomenon of language (together with the word and speech phenomena, as inseparable ones) in the conceptual and linguistic pictures of the world of average speaker and professional linguist is radically different. The study considers the complex concept WORD / LANGUAGE / SPEECH, which is verbalized by language units extracted from English general and special lexicographic sources. The two nominative fields of the studied concept are formed: one for the naive and the other for the scientific pictures of the world. It is proved that various discourse patterns are being implied, according to which general and special dictionaries are to be used. The verbalized concept WORD / LANGUAGE / SPEECH is described in a comparative perspective as it is presented within the naive and the scientific pictures of the world. The goal of the article is to describe the nuclear zone of the nominative field of the
concept LANGUAGE from the point of view of dual linguistics, which presupposes the naïve and scientific understanding of language in English lexicography. It is also proved that the nuclear zone of the nominative field of the analyzed concept LANGUAGEconsists of seven sememes of the polysemant language. In most of them their semantics incorporates archiseme language, which is the combination of such basic sems as: 1) human; 2) structural; 3) communication; 4) thoughts and ideas; 5) with the help of words. Some of the analyzed semes narrow their meaning: from human to ethnic, or special, social, individual.