THE REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPTS LIFE, DEATH, LUNACY, MONEY, FEAR IN THE ENGLISH ROCK DISCOURSE IN THE LINGUOCULTURAL ASPECT (BASED ON THE SONGS INCLUDED IN THE MUSIC ALBUM DARK SIDE OF THE MOON COMPOSED BY THE BRITISH ROCK BAND PINK FLOYD)

Abstract

The article studies representation of concepts LIFE, DEATH, MONEY, FEAR, LUNACY in the linguocultural aspect. The research is based on the material of songs included in the album Dark Side of the Moon, composed and performed by the British rock band Pink Floyd. The author studies the rock discourse as a form of the institutional discourse, stresses its main characteristics. The notion of concept in the linguoculture is also discussed in the paper. The author analyses the ways of representation of concepts on the semantic and lexical levels, key lexical units are determined. The article states that verbal and non-verbal units are included in the content of concepts under consideration (LIFE, DEATH, MONEY, FEAR, LUNACY). The author classifies speech, sounds, laughter embedded into audio tracks, the use of various acoustic effects as the ways of representation of concepts.