MODELING THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT “CHINA” ON THE MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN ELECTRONIC NEWS PORTALS

Abstract

The article is an example of modeling the structure of the concept of “China” based on the texts of Russian electronic media. Division into separate groups makes it possible to distinguish various signs and characteristics of the phenomenon – nuclear and peripheral – in the semantic field of the concept. The semantic field of the “China” concept on the material of Russian news portals reflects historical, political, economic and other kinds of changes in the presentation of this phenomenon and demonstrates the stability and variability of individual features of the object in question. The definition of the term “concept” is given, the elements of its conceptual structure are considered in the system of the method of field structuring of the concept by modeling the “main” semantic group and the description of secondary semantic groups.