THE IDEA OF "COVID-19" IN THE СОNSCIOUSNESS OF NATIVE RUSSIAN SPEAKERS
This article is devoted to the study of "COVID-19", which is a new concept in the mind of native Russian speakers. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that the new concept "COVID-19" occupies an important place in the Russian-language picture of the world, especially during the period of the coronavirus infection in 2020-2021, but it remains incomprehensible and inaccessible for most of us. The study of the concept "COVID-19" in the framework of cognitive linguistics allows us to obtain reliable information of the universal and ethnic features of the worldview as well as build language communication models for the exchange of knowledge and information. The purpose of our research is a systematic description of the concept "COVID-19" in the mind of native Russian speakers. ____________________________ © Чжан Янь, 2022 Materials and methods of research. The data from encyclopedic sources, journalistic texts, literary works, data from lexicographic sources and data obtained as the result of an associative experiment were selected as materials for the study. Such methods and techniques of research were used in the work as methods of conceptual analyses, component analyses and an associative experiment. The novelty of the research lies primarily in the introduction of scientific use of a new subject and material in scientific analyses on the aspect of linguistic-cognitive approaches to the description of significant phenomena of the worldview, as well as the experimental study of this problem, which has not been conducted before. The conceptual analysis of the concept "COVID-19" allows us to establish a conclusion that it serves to form a Russian-speaking picture of the world, which reflects changes in public consciousness during the pandemic. The article emphasizes that the process of a person's perception of new or unfamiliar objects in the external world is fully reflected in his or her language. The study of new concepts of a certain language gives us an opportunity to reveal both cultural features and the way of thinking of a given nation.