REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “PANDEMIC” IN MODERN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA

Abstract

The article discusses the concept of “pandemic” for the first time. The relevance of the study is due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world in 2020. The research material includes English texts of Internet publications. The study and analysis of the leading English-language media revealed the conceptual component of the concept “pandemic”. Conclusions about the content of the concept under study are based on the analysis of data from explanatory dictionaries and English-language articles in 2020. The paper considers 11 features of this concept, including harm to health, spread over a wide area, stay in quarantine or isolation, changes in people’s habitual life, unfavorable business environment, etc. The results of the research help to understand verbal-content structure of the studied concept in the English-language worldview.