VALUE AS ELEMENT OF LINGUOCULTURAL CONCEPT "WEG" IN GERMAN VIEW OF THE WORLD
The article deals with the peculiarities of the conceptualization of the Weg concept in the German language at the national-cultural level. The relevance of this study is due to the anthropocentric approach to language, in which the study of values is of great importance in connection with their regulatory function in all spheres of human life. Language, reflecting the process of cognition and defining the way of membership of the world in a certain culture, allows to penetrate into the sphere of mentality. The concept Weg as a unit of the world view is considered at the junction of cognitive linguistics and linguoculturology in the axiological aspect. The study was carried out on the basis of the lexical-phraseological system and the paremiological foundation of the German language. The research methodology includes conceptual analysis, the method of etymological reconstruction, a description of the semantic structure of the word, the analysis of dictionary definitions and the axiological analysis of phraseological units and paremia. The concept Weg in the German language in its interpretation field provides a large amount of material that has not yet been subjected to detailed conceptual analysis. The concept under consideration is a representative of both universal knowledge and national-specific information encoded in the language. Conceptual characteristics of the concept Weg in German include a number of significant features reflected in the interpretation of dictionaries. Figurative and perceptual characteristics are determined by the composition of the conceptual characteristics of the concept and find various manifestations: from the qualitative characteristics of the road to the designation of obstacles on the way to the goal. The value characteristic of the concept Weg is revealed in the guidelines of behavior, based on the estimates of "good - bad", "right - wrong", "legal - illegal", etc. Weg can have real qualitative, estimated, and also special political characteristics. The lexico-phraseological and paremiological foundation of the German language made it possible to identify such conceptual features as human life, coupled with difficulties and obstacles, life principles, rules, direction, process, spiritual growth of a person, goals, methods of achieving the goal, moral choice, etc.