MODELLING THE INFORMATIVECONTENT OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONCEPT OF “MOTHERHOOD” (BASING ON LEXICOGRAPHIC SOURCES)

Abstract

The article focuses on the results of the definitional and cognitive analysis of the keywords that nominate the African American concept of “Motherhood”. Cognitive characteristics, comprising the informative content of the concept, are revealed and distributed according to the field principle. The feature describing the conceptualized phenomenon from the point of view of gender lies in the nuclear zone. The features describing the conceptualized phenomenon from the point of view of psychophysiology, kinship and activity lie in the zone of close periphery. The features describing the conceptualized phenomenon from the point of view of time span are found inthe zone of far periphery.

Keywords

• concept
• cognitive characteristic
• informative content
• seme
• motherhood