Petriv K. The Conceptosphere of National Identity and its Language Objectivation in Oksana Pakhlovska’s Social and Political Essays.

The present study aimed to make the linguistic analysis of the conceptosphere of national identity based on Oksana Pakhlovska’s social and political essays in the following approaches: the linguocognitive interpretation of verbalizators of the conceptosphere of NATIONAL IDENTITY, the author’s specifics of textual representations and data collected by sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic surveys. To analyze main concepts, forming the conceptosphere of NATIONAL IDENTITY, the complex of methods was chosen, including the linguocognitive method, Z. Popova and I. Sternin’s method of semantic field and T. Vilchynska’s method of semantic and axiological field, the contrastive-comparative method, the linguoculturological explanation method, the method of survey, the method of semantic resonance and the method of contextual analysis. The analysis of each concept starts with the analysis of its verbalizator – its key word. Its lexicographic and psycholinguistic meanings are defined and those meanings that form cognitive features of concepts are respectively identified. The material of the research includes O. Pakhlovska’s articles, essays, reports and essays from the book “Ave. Europa!” (1989–2008) as well as articles “We still enjoy the illusions of “europeanism” in the remote past” (2012); “Non-European Ukraine” (2012); “The train to Warsaw” (2014); “The country of slaves, the country of lords” (2012); “Ave, Mater Dolorosa” (2014); “The space of Sofia” (2016). About 10 thousand contexts with the verbalized conceptosphere of NATIONAL IDENTITY were found in the analyzed O. Pakhlovska’s social and political essays.