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ABSTRACT
The article provides a multidimensional coverage of the concept, its history of study, methods and its structure. In
addition, author provides some notions from prominent scholars concerning the term of concept in the field of
linguistics.
KEYWORDS
Picture of the world, concept, substitution relations, reconstructed, culture, logical-conceptual.
INTRODUCTION
A person’s interactions with the environment shape his
beliefs about it, creating a particular model that
philosophers and linguists refer to as a “picture of the
world”. One of the most significant issues in cognitive
linguistics today is the challenge of showing in the
human mind a complete image of the world,
established by language. The worldviews and
experiences that are gained are translated into
concepts that, when connected logically, constitute a
conceptual system. This conceptual system is then
built, altered, and continually improved.
According to Y.S.Stepanov, S.A. Askoldov’s paper
“Word and Concept”, which appeared in the magazine
“Russian Speech” in 1928, is where the term “concept”
first appears in usage in Russian linguistics. He
acknowledges
“individual representation as a
substitute for the entire generic volume” much like
medieval nominalists did. In contrast to them, he sees
Research Article
THE TERM “CONCEPT” IN MODERN LINGUISTICS
Submission Date:
December 01, 2023,
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Boburjon Sobirjon O’g’li Abdurazoqov
Samarkand State Institute Of Foreign Languages Teacher Department Of Theoretical Aspects Of The English
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a “community” in the idea rather than an individual
depiction. An idea, in the words of S.A. Askoldov, “is a
mental formation that replaces an indefinite set of
objects of the same kind in the process of thought” [1].
S.A. Askoldov
proposes the “substitution function” as
the concept's most important component. The
following is one of the key definitions from his article:
“A concept is a mental formation that replaces an
indefinite set of objects of the same kind in the process
of th
ough” [2]. Numerous “substitution relations”
instances are given in the article, both in the
intellectual and strictly physiological spheres.
According to S.A. Askoldov, there are three basic ways
to approach providing solutions to the concept-related
issu
e. According to him, the idea “is essentially an
objective being, i.e. a community underpinning world
reality, but only the reality of an ideal order” [2] for
idealist epistemologists and intuitionists. The scientist
points out that this interpretation's main weakness is
its inability to explain and comprehend the existence
of numerous ideas, which convey an individual's
subjective point of view on various objects.
Askoldov emphasized the second approach to
resolving the notion problem as the denial of their
existence as communities. Concepts are “always
individual representations, some of which are assigned
only a general significance” [2]. Nominalism would be
this. The third approach, known as conceptualism,
claims the presence of concepts in the human mind.
Unfortunately, the concept of “concept” has been
absent from the national linguistic lexicon for a
considerable amount of time due to objective and
subjective factors, one of which was the state ideology
of the Soviet Union (S.A. Askoldov was officially
accused of idealism). In this regard, it is quite
reasonable to assume that this term, “significantly
intersecting with the established traditional, more
familiar to the scientific community term of the Russian
language “concept”, could not withstand comp
etition,
which in turn is probably explained, on the one hand,
by the foreign-language origin of the first, and on the
other - the absence at that time of the development of
linguistic thought of its proper scientific interpretation.
After a protracted absence, this phrase reappears in
translations of works by English-speaking authors in
the first half of the 1970s.
The term “concept”, a suitable designation for the
language's content side that would remove the
functional constraints of conventional meanings and
concepts, and in which logical-psychological and
linguistic categories would naturally merge, was still
needed in Russian linguistics at the next stage of its
development.
The phrase has been well-established in Russian
linguistics since the 1980s and is now often used by
many academics. The notion is receiving more
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attention in linguistics as a result of developments in
both linguistics and language.
The language has attained a certain level of
completeness, but the new problems it therefore
creates for the researcher have not yet been
established and as a result do not find the appropriate
answer, according to V.V. Kolesov, who writes on the
changes in language and the necessity for changes in
linguistic study. The task, on the other hand, is the
necessity to move to synthesis in theoretical and
practical language acquisition, so we continue to
address language research analytically and divide the
topic of study [4]. E. S. also draws attention to the
developments in linguistics. Kubryakova: “Linguisti
cs
should, in our perspective, gradually take on an
explanatory character as it develops into a mature (in
the Kun meaning) science. Its duty has always included
and now involves the obligation to characterize its
objects. These options are given to it by cognitive
science, which broadens the range of explanations
that linguistics may offer and is thus required [5]. The
concept's entrance to linguistic study enables us to go
on to a synthesis of linguistic facts and an explanation
of the different links between language, thinking, and
culture.
According to V.N. Telia, the idea is a byproduct of
human mind and an ideal phenomenon; therefore it is
present in all aspects of human awareness, not only
language. An idea is a construct that is “reconstructed”
through verbal representation and extralinguistic
information, not reproduced [6]. In this sense of the
phrase, language serves as a secondary tool and
linguization of the “clot of culture
-
concept” as a
whole.
The term “semantic formations” in the linguocultura
l
approach refers to the variety of linguistic and
culturally distinctive semantic formations that express
the linguistic personality of a particular ethnoculture.
Value,
figurative,
and
conceptual
sides
are
differentiated in the cultural notion, according to V.I.
Karasik, who describes it as a “multidimensional
semantic education”. The metaphorical aspect of the
idea is the way that memories of things, occurrences,
and experiences are encoded through our senses of
sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. The conceptual
aspect of a concept includes the linguistic fixation of
the concept, its designation, description, characteristic
structure, definition, and comparative characteristics
of this concept in relation to a specific set of concepts
that occasionally do not exist in isolation. Their most
significant quality is the holographic multidimensional
embeddedness in the system of our experience. The
concept's value side emphasizes the significance of
this mental education for both the individual and the
group [7].
It is described as “a unit of collective consciousness
reflecting the subject of the real or ideal world and
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stored in the national memory of native speakers in a
verbally designated form” by A.P. Babushkin [8].
In order to investigate the differences and similarities
between different peoples' cultures, A.Vezhbitskaya
notes that the notions are ethnospecific [9].
Concepts are seen by the researcher as methods of
cognition of the outside world, which may be
expressed in language in the form of various
explanatory constructs. This strategy is known as
logical-conceptual.
The concept theory has undergone additional potential
development in the writings of S.G.Vorkachev, who
attributes mental education distinguished by language
and cultural peculiarities, in the approval of an
impersonal, objectivist concept, as the primary cause
of the concept's separation [10]. The notion, according
to the researcher, “includes all the communicatively
significant information, in addition to the subject
correlation, in a plan of the content of a language
sign”.
The scientist incorporates the concept's paradigmatic,
syntagmatic, and word-formation links in the semantic
space of the idea. According to S.G.Vorkachev, “the
cognitive memory of a word - the semantic
characteristics of a language sign associated with its
original purpose and the system of spiritual values of
native speakers” [10] is another extremely likely
element of the semantics of the notion. Since its
subject is a mental entity of a distinctive nature, the
formation of which is largely determined by the form
of abstraction, the model of which is set by the concept
itself, it not only describes its subject but also creates
it. This is how concepts function as operational units of
thought in any understanding. [10]
No matter how broadly these plans are split, linguistic
conceptology studies the content features of
linguistic, two-dimensional units, from the peculiar
symbol of the universal subject code to the lexico-
grammatical field.
The notion of linguocognitology has a very large object
base since it encompasses all lexical and grammatical
meanings of linguistic constructions that may be
expressed in words intended to reflect knowledge,
such as frames, scenarios, models, etc. [11]. However,
linguocognitologists' attention extends beyond
national conceptual boundaries to include the
conceptual realm of nonverbal peculiarities of the
universal subject code [12]. The idea is spoken verbally
and enters the language's semantic space, where it is
given a set of linguistic signals to represent itself. The
linguistic notion also gains extra secondary properties
like a cognitive element
—
an image and an
assessment
—
when it becomes immersed in the
cultural environment of a certain ethnic group.
Words, phrases, assertions, texts, and discourse
frequently use concepts. The concept has a complex,
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multidimensional structure that includes, in addition to
the conceptual basis, a sociopsychocultural part. This
component
includes
associations,
emotions,
assessments, national images, and connotations that
are unique to this culture. This complexity and
multidimensionality are the reasons why there isn't a
single definition for the concept.
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