THE CONCEPTUAL BASE OF MEANING FORMATION OF LEXICAL UNITS NOMINATING MENTAL PROCESSES IN THE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH DISCOURSE
The article deals with the problem of conceptualization of the complicated extra linguistic phenomenon of mental processes and its reflection in the meaning of the lexical units of the contemporary English discourse. The main method of the research is based on the cognitive approach to the language because it allows forming a model of mental processes as the conceptual base of meaning formation and modification.