Andrushchenko I. Сonceptualization of ethnic tradition (on material of culture of Crimean Bulgarians).

The dissertation is devoted to building of the theoretical model of conceptualization of ethnic tradition with following approbation of obtained scheme. Bimodal model of conceptualization of ethnic tradition is represented for the first time. On the first stage, conceptualization of ethnic tradition takes place on the existentially-personal and social-legitimate levels. On each of these levels a concept "ethnic tradition" obtains special patterns which allow referring it to the different types of concepts. On a social-legitimate level it is a concept appearing by consistent abstraction from minor, individual, superfluous features and also by joining in a conceptual image components of other concepts. As a concept reflects the most general, essential features of phenomenon and a result of their rational understanding empirically this level of conceptualization includes whole traditions of Crimean Bulgarians, their substantial elements and specific. On an existentially-personal level conceptualization of ethnic tradition leads to formation of a concept-gestalt which is the complete functional intellectual structure which has to put in order heterogeneous elements. The application of this model of conceptualization to culture of Crimean Bulgarians allows to choose some images of ethnic tradition - tradition as a nostalgia, a cultural project, a brand.