Broslavska L. Instantiation of American linguo-cultural concept WAR in the individual discourse of Ernest Hemingway

The object of the research is the concept WAR, verbalized by lexical means of American English in Hemingway's idiodiscourse and the American literary discourse of the 1920s - 1960s. The subject of the research is the specificity of the content, structure, means, and ways of actualization of the linguo-cultural concept WAR and their transformation in Ernest Hemingway's idiodiscourse comparing with the American literary discourse of the 1920s - 1960s. The methods of the research include the etymological analysis, the dictionary definition analysis, and the component analysis, the field modeling method, the contextual analysis, the technique of lingual network semantics by S.A. Zhabotynska, the cross-mapping method, the synchronic comparison of collective and individual characteristics of the concept WAR in the American literary discourse of the 1920s - 1960s and Ernest Hemingway's idiodiscourse, elements of quantitative analysis. The scientific novelty of the research results is that the collective and individual characteristics of the concept WAR in the American literary discourse of the 1920s - 1960s and Ernest Hemingway's idiodiscourse are set up for the first time, in particular, the specificity of notional, evaluative and image components of the concept and its place in the American worldview and writer's individual conceptual sphere are characterized. The practical value of the research lies in the fact that its results can be used in teaching Lexicology, General Linguistics, special courses of Theory of Language Communication, Discourse Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Literary Studies, in the process of writing research papers of different levels.