SOME LINGUO-CULTURAL CONCEPT IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of some aspects of the British conceptual world on the basis of contemporary imaginative literature examination. Concept is understood as the individual author’s vision of the reflected world, as a predication of the topic to its author’s interpretation. The work analyses concepts reflecting the collective unconscious of the nation which turns them into linguo-cultural ones. The article examines the concept of tolerance through cause-effect relations of crime and punishment. The problems of children-parents relations in the British Muslim culture are also touched upon. The work shows the differences of some basic linguo-cultural concepts in Britain and in Russia.

Keywords

• contemporary British imaginative literature
• concept
• notion
• linguo-cultural concept
• современная британская художественная литература
• концепт
• понятие
• лингвострановедческий концепт