Концепт ДРУЖБА/FRIENDSHIP у мовній свідомості українців та англійців

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to define and describe the peculiarities of the concept FRIENDSHIP in the contrasted cultures and to study the role and place of the concept of FRIENDSHIP in the Ukrainian and Canadian linguistic cultures. Tasks. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to study the works of predecessors (1), define the concept of “language consciousness” in modern linguistics (2), find out what the concept is and how it is implemented in the contrasted languages (3), and study the concept of FRIENDSHIP as an associative object in Ukrainians and Canadians (4).