THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NOMINATIVE FIELD OF THE CONCEPT OF “FRIENDSHIP” BASED ON THE SERIES OF NOVELS BY C.S. LEWIS “THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA”

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the FRIENDSHIP concept in fairy-tale discourse based on the novels of C.S. Lewis “The Chronicles of Narnia”. This research focuses on the linguocognitive aspect of studying concepts, although it also addresses the cultural side of the issue. The work contains a brief theoretical background on one of the methods of research – the construction of the nominative field of the concept. The article also addresses the issue of defining the notion of the fairy-tale discourse and provides its main characteristics. The practical part of the study contains a description of the methodology for constructing the nominative field of a concept and two techniques included in this methodology – definitional analysis and contextual analysis. Thus, the work demonstrates the results of an analysis of the dictionary interpretations of the FRIENDSHIP concept and an analysis of its functioning in the discourse of an English-language fairy tale and is of interest to researches devoted to the study of concepts.