Petrinska T. Lingual actualization of text concept GLOBALIZATION in English publicistic discourse

This thesis focuses on lingual actualization of text concept GLOBALIZATION in English publicistic discourse. It is set that the anthropocentric paradigm of linguistics in ХХІ century presupposes the human factor as the source of existence, and the motivation behind g globalization process. The text concept GLOBALIZATION is considered a product of codetermination of national language view of the world, and the English publicistic discourse. Discourse is a source of language units genesis, environment of their functioning and source of linguistic world view. The definition, main characteristics, genre peculiarities of English publicistic discourse have been given in the thesis. The function of text category of integrativity and cognitive context in the text concept GLOBALIZATION analysis has been specified. The definition of the term "text concept" has been given and its methodology has been described. As a result of undertaken study, the cognitive context model of concept GLOBALIZATION has been built, and the description of content of text concept GLOBALIZATION has been conducted through the analysis of language presentations of the concept in contemporary publicistic texts.