@article{Заверющенко_2021, title={Married life concept in Ukrainian wedding sphere of concepts}, url={https://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology/article/view/17191}, DOI={10.26565/2227-1864-2021-88-05}, abstractNote={<p>The article defines the term of «concept» and «sphere of concepts» considering their relationship, their link to the concepts of conceptual and linguistic pictures of the world. Scientists’ views on the nature of the concept are described. It is indicated which of scientists researched the Ukrainian conceptual picture. It is designated which of the linguists paid attention to studying the concepts, which fill the Ukrainian wedding sphere of concepts, the level of exploring the issue. The description of the concept is given, namely: its structure, boundaries, links between individual concepts, content of images. The place of the concept of marital life in the Ukrainian marriage concept is observed.</p> <p>In this article married life concept is studied. Investigations are based on Ukrainian works of Slobozhansky writers, folklore collections and dictionaries. Catch-phrases, separate lexemes, wedding context excerpts, proverbs, folk set-phrase similes are analyzed. The terms of concept and sphere of concepts are explained. Approach to studying Ukrainian wedding sphere of concepts are scheduled, it’s boundaries and concept content. Special attention is given to married life concept formation. Integral parts of married life concept are allocated as well as it’s relationships with other concepts like family, happiness, love, father and mother, kindness, bread, home, road, mood, knitting, soul, time. A lot of images like wife, husband, married couple, child (children), young married woman, host, hostess, orphans, general prosperity, inheritance, household are analyzed. These images form a named concept explaining symbolic basis of dew, fire, mood, dove. Catch-phrase models are described as well as God concept as the main conceptual image.</p> <p>The inner shape of catch-phrases, which form married life concept, are considered. Catch-phrases components are singled out which have logical meaning for determining concept boundaries and forming a number of synonyms and antonym pairs – inheritance, kindness, bread, happiness, destitution, grief, poverty. Epithets of the words like spouse are explained as well as the basis of concept appearance connected to the Ukrainian way of life.</p&gt;}, number={88}, journal={The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series “Philology”}, author={Заверющенко, Ольга Леонідівна}, year={2021}, month={Apr.}, pages={36-43} }