THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT LOVE IN THE ENGLISH ROCK DISCOURSE WITH REFERENCE TO SONGS OF THE ROCK BAND SCORPIONS (BEST LOVE BALLADS)

Abstract

The article is a study of means of representation of the concept LOVE in the rock discourse in the linguocultural aspect. The work is based on the material of songs in the album Best Love Ballads composed and performed by rock band Scorpions. The notion of a linguocultural concept and ways of studying it are considered. Semantic components of the content LOVE are described by means of the analysis of the dictionary meanings of the lexical unit love in the English language. The key elements of the core of the concept LOVE are determined. The way of representation of the concept by means of associations and images is analyzed. The author stresses that the concept has a field structure, where logical elements are located in the core of the concept and imaginative and associative elements are in the periphery. The associative field of the concept LOVE is determined due to the analysis of lexical units representing the concept under consideration.