COGNITIVE CONCEPT "KNOWLEDGE" IN THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC WORLD PICTURE
This article studies the mental and linguistic nature of the concept «Knowledge» in the English linguistic world picture. The paper analyzes the cognitive representation of the concept by the British and Americans. The author explores the theoretical background of research in Cognitive Linguistics. The cognitive structure of the concept «Knowledge» is learned. The research defines the ethnic and mental values of the concept «Knowledge» among British and American way of thinking. The main words and phrases representing the concept «Knowledge» are outlined. The relevance of the study is to encode a wide range of issues related to cognition, knowledge and science among English-speaking mentality. The concept «Knowledge» is a complex mental pattern that reflects the cultural and cognitive features of knowing the world. The aim of this study is to analyze the linguistic-cognitive and cross-cultural nature of lexical units and phrases that represent the concept «Knowledge» on the basis of the English language. The article uses descriptive-analytical, contextual diachronic semantic-cognitive methods to describe the linguistic, cognitive and cultural aspects of the concept «Knowledge». The research proposed the following hypothesis: the concept «Knowledge» is a complex mental pattern, that characterizes the specific conceptual features English and American mentality. The concept is verbalized in English by a whole paradigm of lexical units.