SYNERGETIC NATURE OF THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS

Abstract

The article highlights the connection between such scientific areas as synergetics – the study of self-organization of systems, and cognitive linguistics – a branch of linguistics that studies the connection between language and consciousness. Article aims at proving of applicability of synergertcs’ methods in the field of cognitive studies. This article examines the concept of happiness in the discourse of dystopian genre in order to prove that the methods of synergetics are applicable to cognitive linguistics, and that the concept, as a complex and multi-level system of conceptual components, has a synergistic nature. The research contains a brief theoretical background, and presents the course of analysis of the system of the concept of happiness from the point of view of its synergetic nature, that is the states of the concept system at all stages of self-organization of the system, as well as the results of this study.