FRAME STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT PAIN IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article analyzes and describes the concept PAIN in English from the point of view of its frame structure. The main subframe areas of use of this concept are identified, and the main associative fields are determined. A frame model of the concept PAIN has been compiled in the form of a hierarchy of cognitive features, the central place in which belongs to the key components of the concept (INDIVIDUAL, PAIN PREDICATE, SOURCE OF PAIN). Based on the analysis of the meaning of the nominees of the concept PAIN, two subframes are identified that develop this concept – PHYSICAL PAIN and EMOTIONAL PAIN. In the process of objectification, both subframes acquire additional cognitive features associated with physical sensations and psycho-emotional perception. Here, such cognitive features as INTENSITY, LOCATION, DURATION, REACTION, TYPE, STATE are distinguished. Being part of the perinuclear structure of the concept PAIN, they represent a modal-evaluative characteristic of the concept and are realized through verbal, substantive and adjectival combinations.