SEMANTIC VARIABILITY OF THE NOTION “CONCEPTUAL LACUNA”

Abstract

The article contains a critical analysis of certain controversial points that exist in the theory of lacunae, along with the comparison of the approaches to the term “lacunae” in linguistics and conceptology. The article also argues for the intracultural approach to conceptual lacunae, suggests definitions of the term lacuna, distinguishes conceptual lacunae from language ones, discusses the ways of their reconstruction, suggests variants of interpreting the term “conceptual lacuna”, displays the scale of their approximation to the linguoconceptosphere.