Nidzelska Y. Key Concepts of the Jewish Culture in Modern English.

Object of the investigation is verbal means of realization of the concepts of the Jewish culture in Modern English. Taget to reveal cognitive and communicative features of the national concepts of the Jewish culture by studying peculiarities of their verbalization in the means of Modern English. Methods: hypothetico-deductive, lexical entry analysis methodcomponential, conceptual, contextual, onomasiologic, descriptive, linguostylistic analyses, interpretative method. Scientific value of the dissertation is the defining and analysis of the national concepts of the Jewish culture SABBATH, PESACH, KASHRUTH, HOLOCAUST, TZEDAKAH, dominant values of the people, key words in the light of its representation in the English-speaking discourse. The verbal means of realization of these concepts. Nominative, epidigmatic processes revealing the peculiarities of categorization and conceptualization of experience of the Jewish people are investigated. Theoretical value: the contribution to theory of nomination, in particular to mechanisms and principles of verbalization of foreign cultural concepts, questions concerning transfer of concepts to other language and culture. The conclusions about semantic characteristics of the linguistic units contribute to the theory of conceptual and lexical semantic, help to solve the questions of conceptology, cognitive semantics, linguistic and cultural studies, theory of intercultural communication. Practical value is defined by use of its materials and results in the courses of lexicology ("Semantic structure of the word", "Onomasiology", "Phraseology"), stylistics of English, in the special courses on cognitive linguistics, text interpretation, linguistic and cultural studies, ethnopsychology, psycholinguistics and intercultural communication.