Serebryanska І. Concept sphere «inorganic nature» in Ukrainian prose of the second half of ХХ century.

The object of the work is the language of Ukrainian prose of the late twentieth century – M.Stelmah, O.Gonchar, G.Tjutjunnyk. The goal is to define the specifics of verbalization and the structure of concept sphere "inorganic nature" and its basic concepts; to figure out their role in the analysis of the Ukrainian language model of the world and to determine the dependence of language representation of the concepts on external conditions and internal linguistic and literary terms. Methods. Descriptive method, classification method, comparative method, method of introspection, psycholinguistic experiment. Novelty. It’s the first comprehensive researh of concept sphere “inorganic nature” made in the Ukrainian language study according to the material of Ukrainian prose of the late twentieth century. The verbalisation and the structure of the conceptual sphere and its basic concepts are analyzed here. Results. The terms “concept”, “inorganic nature” and their methodological basis are defined here. The research contains structural and semantic analysis of the concept sphere "inorganic nature" in the Ukrainian language model, classifying and characterizing lexical and semantic groups which explicate different nature realities. Sphere - cognitive linguistics, lingvoculture, lexical semantics, linguistic analysis.