CONCEPTS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND SPANISH PICTURES OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article represents spheres of concepts КОНФЛИКТ/ CONFLICT/ CONFLICTO and ЭТНОС/ ETHNIC GROUP/ ETNIA on the basis of the definitional analysis of the Russian, English and Spanish dictionary entries. A common representation of an ethnic conflict is formulated in the frame of the three different language worldviews that determines the relevance of this research. The conflicting parties, the nature of the conflict and the causes of the conflict are distinguished in the conceptual structure of concepts about the conflict. The conceptual domain of knowledge about ethnic conflict formulated on the basis of a definitional analysis is confirmed by the study of the works of Russian and foreign researchers. The conclusion about the openness of the conceptual domains of the analyzed domain of knowledge that depends on the certain types of ethnic conflicts is formulated.