Models for Implementing the Concept of “Absence”

Abstract

The article examines typical verbalization models of the concept of “Absence” in the Ukrainian, Russian and English languages for their further comparison with the verbal implementation of this concept. There are several tasks which the article aims to achieve: 1) to identify common structures of conveying the concept of “Absence” in a text corpus of each selected language; 2) to build typical models based on the means of representation of the considered concept in the three languages; 3) to determine universal and original models in the three languages. There are a number of methods which are used to analyse the material under investigation: the continuous sampling method, the comparative method, etymologization in terms of the comparative-historical method, modelling within the structural method etc. We concluded that the languages under consideration have both universal and original typical models for implementing the concept of “Absence”. Their features depend on the structure of each specific language and the corresponding means of verbalization of different concepts. According to these models, the verbal implementation of the concept experiences its modification without violation of the identity of its meaning / sense. These models are a starting point for studying the implementation of the “Absence” concept in speech. Deviation from the models represents a violation of the norms within each language.

Keywords

• “Absence” concept
• universal and original typical models
• verbal implementation of the concept
• genetic language knowledge
• lingual experience
• models for implementing