Palchevska O. Concept of Road in the English, French and Ukrainian Languages: Lingvocognitive and Ethnolinguistic Aspects.

The thesis, a multy-aspect research, done from the standpoint of cognitive ethnolinguistics, proposes a conceptual model of the ROAD as a spacial category in the English, French, Ukrainian languages. This model is manifested by the respective frame constituted by lexical, phraseological nominal units as well as text descriptors. The main frame model is construed by integrating the subframes of four basic types – attributive, substuntival, static-active, and dinamic-active. Using the terminology of cognitive onomasiology, lingvo-cultural studies and cognitive semantics the dissertation focuses on the complex cognive-semiotic categorization of the lingvo-cultural units with the spacial semantic component of ROAD. The conceptual and structural modelling in text of the English, French and Ukrainian fairy-tales is done through the prizm of semantic oppositions and determined domains: MOVEMENT, JOURNEY, MEETING and GIFT. In each of the latter the specific profiles are revealed. The ways of mataphorization ofthe phraseological units of the concept of ROAD are thoroughly regarded, taking into account the constituents of the onomasiological structure of the units as well as their metaphorical models.