Vakhovska O. The Verbalization of the Concept SIN in the English Discourse of the 14th–21st Centuries.

This paper focuses on the contents and structure of the concept SIN verbalized in the English language and their historical development in the English secular discourse of the 14th-21st centuries. The cognitive-discursive paradigm as the methodology of the research determines the application of the methods of etymological analysis, analysis of vocabulary definitions, semantic analysis, analysis of the semantic relations of synonyms, cognitive modeling, cognitive mapping, contextual analysis, historical comparison, elements of quantitative analysis. This paper introduces a model of the linguocultural concept SIN, defines the means of the realization of SIN in the English language and argues the semantic space of the nominations of SIN to be organized as a network of concepts profiled within the conceptual domains RELIGIOUS and SECULAR; defines the means of metaphoric and metonymic nomination of SIN; reveals the properties of the diachronic variation of the contents of SIN. This research contributes to linguocognitivistics, cognitive semantics, conceptualization theory, cognitive metaphor and metonymy theory, develops historical linguocognitivistics. The results obtained can be applied to the lecturing courses in General Linguistics ('Language and Cognition' course), Lexicology ('Lexical Semantics', 'Synonymy' courses), to the courses in Cognitive Linguistics, Historical Linguocognitivistics, in lexicographic practice, in scientific research work.