“Freedom” as a culture-bound concept in works by Friedrich Shiller

Abstract

The article analyses the concept “freedom” in works by a great German poet Friedrich Schiller. The aim of the research is to distinguish characteristics of the concept. The continuous sampling method was used to collect the data for the study. The content analysis of the noun freedom gives an opportunity to generalise the cognitive structure of the concept. It contains the subject, the predicate, the object, the attributive characteristic of “freedom”.

Keywords

• concept “freedom”
• cognitive system
• conceptual analysis of poetry
• linguistic analysis of a concept
• works by Friedrich Shiller