Сhornovol-Tkachenko O. Verbalisation of the concept POWER in the modern English discourse

The paper presents the results of the cognitive discursive study of the concept POWER revealing its lingual-cultural specificity. The concept is viewed as a unit of individual mental resources representing subjective interpretation of the socio-cultural experience connected with the phenomenon of power in the British culture which is acquired in the process of socialization. The concept POWER is actualized by nominative means in the modern British newspaper discourse. The study reveals specific features of the verbal and mental representation of the concept POWER notional-evaluative and imaginative-evaluative constituents; systematizes the structural-semantic, pragmatic-semantic, part-of-speech and ideographic characteristics of the name of the concept and other means of its primary nomination; reveals the correlates of conventional and imaginative metaphors of power; determines rational and emotive connotations associated with the notion of power in the British language and culture; gives the frame model of the concept POWER.