Melnyk R. Adjectives with the meaning "diligent, industrious" in the German-speaking world picture.

The research is based on the statistical methods of the data treatment, methods of contextual analysis, methods of component analysis. Lexical units of different parts of speech to define concept system "diligence, industry" in the key literary works in Germany in 14 - 20 th centuries were found and analyzed. The influence of moral-ideological views of the society on the concept system verbalization in various periods of the society development was considered. On the basis of quantitative parameters of the adjectives with the meaning "diligent, industrious" their syntagmatic links, paradigmatic relations were defined and epidigmatic characteristics were regarded.