Interpretation of a basic concept in a literary text

Abstract

The problems of interpretation of the term ‘concept’, language representation and methods of its analysis, difficulties connected with the study of its correlation with national mentality and culture, language and linguistic consciousness are regarded in the present article. Study of concepts helps to understand the conceptual and linguistic world images, to define the national specificity. Concept absorbs meanings of many lexical units and realizes them not only in a word, but also in а word-combination, an utterance, a text. This article also lays out the principles for textual study and its various aspects, questions regarding the interaction between text and culture, methods for identifying and interpreting the basic ‘concept’ in a literary text.